Re: Antwerp Alien Registration in English?

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In a message dated 9/3/2007 10:52:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
Marion5301@xxxxxxx writes:

<< I have been unsuccessful in using Babeblfish AltaVista to translate the
Antwerp Alien Registrations list from Dutch to English. There is no option
for Belgian-to-English. >>

==There is no language called Belgian. The official language in
Antwerp is Flemish. It is similar to Dutch and speakers of one
language readily understand speech and writing in the other

==That applies to humans who can make the little adjustments
from the one to the other. A computer accessory like Babelfish
probably lacks those smarts.

Michael Bernet, New York
_mbernet@xxxxxxxx (mailto:mbernet@xxxxxxx)

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