Translate.RU going to hell in a handbasket?

[BrianN]

Has anyone else noticed this?

I know from time to time they (Prompt) work on the online dictionaries... but today I noticed that something as simple as "Thank you for email"... comes out as:

Òàíê èîó -- for thank you.  It's doing a literal/verbal interpretation instead of a realistic one.  (BarryM you've got to be the most self-educated expert on this stuff, any ideas?  Spyke/Buford you noticed this too?)

I was quite suprised to see this tonight, and then I went to my old standby, http://translation2.paralink.com

Did the same thing and I get the CORRECT ñïàñèáî etc...

Does anybody know what the heck is going on at ProjectMT?

(My fiance and I can talk and write in both russian and english -limited but effective-, but this seems to be really OUT of the norm for Prompt.  I've got the prompt r-express on my own computer system but it's much slower than prompts server is... so that's why I prefer to use the online interpreter, oh well, I'll quit rambling and see what any of you folks have to say about this).

[Quasimoto]

... in response to Translate.RU going to hell in a handbask..., posted by BrianN on Jul 26, 2002

Works flawlessly from my computer as of 17:50 MT

Steve

[BrianN]

... in response to Re: Translate.RU going to hell in a hand..., posted by Quasimoto on Jul 26, 2002

Man, they must've tried some new update the other day and then found out it didn't work so good!  Back to normal now...  Thanks.

[Jack]

... in response to Translate.RU going to hell in a handbask..., posted by BrianN on Jul 26, 2002

Brain I regret to inform you that our beloved Spyke-Buford has gone to that big electronic translator in the sky. Seems his stupidity got him banned from P-L.

eye 4 1 R nyet going 2 miss his stupid ramblings here, although he still writes his blabbering non-sense 2 me privately.