With the improvements in translation software, Alarm Clock wondered if translators might be able to amicably resolve their disputes by deferring to the wonders of technology. We found a translation engine at www.dictionary.com and tested its capabilities. Based on the results, it would appear that technology will not soon end any squabbles.
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Original in French:
A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Translation:
With the Search of Wasted Time
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Original in Italian:
I Sommersi e i Salvati
Translation:
I Submerged and it Saves to You
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Original in Spanish:
Cien Anos De Soledad
Translation:
One Hundred Anuses of Solitude
The Danzig Trilogy:
Dog Years, Cat and Mouse, The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
Original in German:
Danziger Trilogie:
Hundejahre, Katz und Maus, Die Blechtrommel
Translation:
Danziger Trilogie:
Dog years, Katz and Maus, The Blechtrommel
The Stone Raft by Jose Saramango
Original in Portuguese:
A Jaganda de Pedra
Translation:
The Jaganda of Rock
Start
Founders' Note
Dateline
Dispatches about the interaction
of culture and technology.
Through a lens
People use cameras to answer
a question.
Backlash
Killthedot.com
Translator
Software interprets the classics
Send-up
Satire and ridicule.
Features
Silicon Valley
The Enigmatic Craig McCaw
Finish
Fiction
"Cyber-sized"
History of...
the typewriter.
The Watch
Reviews and commentary
Wind-up
Physicist Carver Mead explains why innovation requires courage and luck.
Alarm Clock Communications is dedicated to providing a platform for opinion, and here is our promise: ANY editorial submission that is consistent with our editorial mission and that meets our editorial guidelines will be published. And the best of what we receive will be printed in alarm:clock magazine.So let us know what you think.
brian@thealarmclock.com
andrew@thealarmclock.com
