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Thread #68448   Message #1152834
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
02-Apr-04 - 12:32 PM
Thread Name: My Lagan Love in French - is this OK?
Subject: RE: My Lagan Love in French - is this OK?
Babelfish, unfortunately, makes no allowance for scansion or rhyme. If you wish to translate a song using babelfish, I would suggest that the best method is to translate the song (with suitable scansion/rhyme) and the use babelfish to translate it back to the original language to see if the translation 'rings true'.
See German Folk Song for the general idea

CHEERS

Nigel