[Sca-cooks] steam-baking

[Elaine Koogler]

Only it wasn't a computer that did this translation....it was to very
scholarly gentlemen with PhD's...I'm not sure why they didn't translate this
particular word, but I do know that oftentimes scholars will use the
original word as there may not have been an accurate translation of it.  In
Chinese, a good example is the word  "mei", which is usually translated as
"plum", but it refers to a fruit that's not really like what we think of as
a plum.  When Dr. Anderson and Teresa Wang worked on the translation of Ni
Tsan's manuscript, this was one of the things they pointed out in their
notes was this very problem.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
> We were talking about the pros and cons of using computer translation
> programs to translate recipes recently. I think this might be a good
> example of where such programs might fail and why. The question on
> what kind of "soda" is meant might be another.
>
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> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad