Leucojum fontianum/tingitanum (again!)
Jane McGary (Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:03:17 PST)
Rodger Whitlock wrote,
BTW, if you use Google to recover the key I refer to, it's in French.
If you use Google's translation feature, be aware that it slightly
garbles the output, translating proper names (Maire -> "Mayor"),
abbreviations (an abbreviated journal name "Jour. somethingorother"
comes out as "Day. Club-footed."), and turning fragments of text
in other languages into nearly meaningless English.
Hilarious mistranslations can occur when scientific text is submitted to
machine translation. If you happen to know the German word for "seeds," you
can imagine one that made me fall on the floor laughing.
If somebody wants to send me the key, I can translate it non-mechanically.
Jane McGary