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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2431977, member: 19463"]To make this work really well, we need a version of the software trained in coin-speak. Current program have the same rules for anything written in a language but could be set for or even recognize ~1000 common numismatic phrases and render passages more to our liking. I do not read French but I can read Cohen because he wrote his catalog in beginner grade coin friendly language. Auto translation software may never render a beautiful passage matching the spirit or poetry of the original but teaching it that German has specific words that should be rendered EF rather than exquisite and overstruck rather than reused. The first step could be to have a talk with your geeky grandchildren that work for Google. They might do it on lunch break. For anyone to do a translation it is necessary for there to be a grasp of both languages and the context of the material. Otherwise idioms suffer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2431977, member: 19463"]To make this work really well, we need a version of the software trained in coin-speak. Current program have the same rules for anything written in a language but could be set for or even recognize ~1000 common numismatic phrases and render passages more to our liking. I do not read French but I can read Cohen because he wrote his catalog in beginner grade coin friendly language. Auto translation software may never render a beautiful passage matching the spirit or poetry of the original but teaching it that German has specific words that should be rendered EF rather than exquisite and overstruck rather than reused. The first step could be to have a talk with your geeky grandchildren that work for Google. They might do it on lunch break. For anyone to do a translation it is necessary for there to be a grasp of both languages and the context of the material. Otherwise idioms suffer.[/QUOTE]
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