[Herbalist] Manual de Mujeres online

[Jenne Heise]

> I do want to check up on it, 'cause I've already found a couple
> discrepancies on numbers for quantities, which could alter how the recipes
> come out...  I'm not sure if they are from translation differences, or
> perhaps from differences in the source of the original text.

I've been watching the translation project from afar, and I think that
under no circumstances should you use the numbers from babelfish, since
the translations are not only not that great, but 400 years out of date
for the text and probably in the wrong dialect.

Babelfish is ok if you just want to get a vague sense of what something
might be about, but given a choice between machine translation and
translation by someone who knows the language and is a bit familiar with
the subject, machine translation almost always loses.

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