Believe it once you see it (and use it) (Score 1)

Translation, especially online, is a damn hard thing to do. I've studied with one of translation pioneers and have heard many stories of a multimillion dollar demo that concludes by translating 'Hello' into 'thirteen'. Part of it is the fact that translation is 'interlingua' based, where 'interlingua' is some hypothetical 'language of the mind', which presumably uses grammar to verbalize some of world knowledge. Now, the computer has no word knowledge. This is going to sound like babelfish - at best, a little bit usable... That's my 5 cents. I hope I'm wrong anyway, this would be great technology.