[Taxacom] Latin anyone?

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=pT#la|en|

Thanks Neal, for having brought this to my attention. I had seen that 
they had added some languages in Google Translator but we were not 
aware that Latin was among them.

Translating Latin diagnoses into English, Spanish and French works 
better than into German (this is not surprising), into Spanish and 
into French does not work better than into English (usually 
translating from one Roman language into another Roman language works 
better than if English is involved). Quality of translation for 
Latin-English is definitely lower than for Spanish-English, 
French-English or Italian-English, many Latin words and grammatical 
constructions (words like coeruleoque) are not recognized, especially 
those of the bioscientific slang used in the 1700s and 1800s (fascia 
and such terms). But in any case it is way better than anything we 
had used before.

Francisco

University of Goettingen, Germany
www.animalbase.org