Jim Lawrence (AccessD)
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Nov 28 09:55:42 CST 2004
Sounds awesome Stuart. Probably the most difficult word in the English language to translate is the word 'set'. This word has literally dozens of meanings. In one encyclopedia, the number of means attributed to this simple word fills 8 pages. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 9:00 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: RE: [AccessD] Re: Selecting Languages - English or Spanish or Something On 25 Nov 2004 at 8:50, Roz Clarke wrote: > Anything that's spelt differently is no problem for text translation, only > aural translation. So I don't think those *would* work! > > Right (correct) and right (hand) and free (at liberty) and free (gratuit) > are the only ones I can think of just now. > Take a look at the number of meanings for the words "set" and "run" in any good dictionary :-) As an aside, most difficult words to translate: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3830521.stm (I'm coming in on this a bit late. I've just spent the last week sailing from the Whitsundays in Australia to PNG and I'm just catching up on a weeks worth of email. A great experience. My first time to sail a square rigger - a 53ft brigantine.) -- Stuart -- _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com