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In article <426dc9d1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>, INITIAL+SURNAME@tpg.com.au
says...
> Interesting videos.
>
> Does anyone know of a good web based Russian to English language translator,
> or doesn't such a beastie exist? The following is from the default
> translator's attempt at a game review on the site. It's kind of funny, but
> not very enlightening:
>
> --
>
> Now about sad. Despite of licked and as a whole the balanced gameplay, in
> game quite often there are serious punctures by way of design of missions.
> To begin even that in a briefing to you very indistinct purposes are given,
> and on a mini-card key points of the task are not marked in any way. It
> would Seem - anything fatal, however in practice such defects sometimes fine
> irritate. We shall tell, in one of German missions when after a victorious
> march on small small town at the tank the engine has suddenly decayed, game
> has given out the message that it is necessary to grasp urgently the machine
> of allies and to run from city. We have promptly grasped the tank, then...
> Twenty minutes turned on edges of a card for nobody has found time to
> designate a point of runaway on a card.
>
> In English campaign in general it is has reached a farce - under orders of
> from us it was required to get out the resident of fascist bondage. A
> disposition, like, simple: the resident hold in a city town hall under
> strict protection. My fighters valiantly destroy all protection, process a
> town hall from grenade cup discharges and... Casually kill the captive.
> During this moment game does not think at all to inform on a failure of
> mission, and we as full idiots, still half an hour we try to clear away
> approaches to a town hall. However, already now, while I hollow on the
> keyboard, developers have put the first patch on an official site,
> correcting I booze mistakes and when you will read these lines - for certain
> there will be also the second. So we shall hope for the best.
>
> --
LoL!
This effort dovetails quite nicely with the thread about Voice
Recognition in software. This is pretty much par for the course with
respect to computers and their "understanding" of natural language (and
they're usually better at things when they're give *text* instead of
*speech*...).
Yeah, I can just see giving orders to my squad via voice, and then
hearing back, "Aye-aye, Gunny, process a town hall from grenade cup
discharges!!!" as my marines run off to their doom.
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