Le site babelfish.yahoo.com est-il sûr ?

Perhaps the best online translator for a wide range of languages, very useful and user-friendly with its simple yet effective interface. But don't rely on it too much, sometimes it misreads a sentence and translates into a strange grammar - it's no substitute for a dictionary. Overall it's brilliant at translating a certain individual word, but not sentences, and certainly not whole paragraphs.

original site of the yahoo-hosted translationprogram "babelfish" ***** The Babel fish is a fictional species in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams: The Babel fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix, formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear, you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.