My wife, who is Bavarian, travels a lot and I send her faxes daily when she is away. One sure fire amusement is for me to take my ordinary daily jottings and run them through Babelfish to turn it into German. She usually thinks it is just so cute, "it sounds just like a foreigner". However, the meaning does come through.

If you are serious about using a translator program for communicating, I would suggest keeping the vocabulary and the sentence structure simple and *keep away from idioms*.

Sourdough