Re: OT: Translation

[Bob and Carla <bb333@earthlink.net>]

Alberto,
      I'd like to jump in on this one.



    Storm= process

    Press= machine (macchina in Italiano)


So, I can use this in two ways;

printing press (macchina litografia)   as in, "lithographic printing  
press"                  [or stampadore, ingranditore]

or

processor (film or paper processor) like a drum or automatic  
processor....like a machine processor

Bob


On Jan 19, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Alberto Novo wrote:

> > But while this might be funny, software translation can still be  
> > useful in
> > many cases, for example, just to have a sense/guess of what the other
> > speaker is talking about, and if we know the context, the  
> > translation can be
> > useful.
> But when I corresponded with a Russian photographer, and our  
> respective automatic translators were translating "storm press" for  
> a printing process, I wrote him asking what a process that was. I  
> wrote him that the translation was failing because of "storm" was  
> meaning an atmospheric eventt like... etc., asking for a more  
> meaningful word. So he replied (translating) "it is storm-press"! I  
> still don't know what it is...
> Alberto