Latin translator?

In line with my last question (which you may still answer if you wish!), does anyone know of a GOOD online English - Latin translation jobbie?|||Flat answer - there is no such thing. They are all essentially worthless for anything. None of the translators for Latin online give anything close to a decent translation going either way. There are too many instances where you must know the context before choosing one of the four or five possible word choices. Other problems seem to arise from the high degree of inflection in Latin - the translators just do not seem to get case and number right, and the verbs are just as bad, especially the subjunctive. Seems like the translators assume all is indicative. This is probably compounded by Latin's lack of fixed word order.





The net result is you get a bunch of nouns and verbs that may or may not be in context, and you still don't know who did what with which to whom when.








Single word translators which show you several possible choices for one word work. One of the best of those is:





http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wor鈥?/a>|||http://www.stars21.com/translator/englis鈥?/a>|||http://dictionary.reference.com/translat鈥?/a>


Is a real good translator that translates French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese to English...





I guess that doesn't answers your question.|||There is no good online translator. It takes human intervention to translate the thought (rather than just the words), %26amp; apply the syntax.


Take, for example, the site (stars21) suggested in one of the answers to your query..


Input "I sing of arms and the man" (which is a typical rendering of Vergil's "arma virumque cano")


The translator suggests "EGO sono of telum quod vir".


This is mainly nonsense %26amp; even retains the English "of" as it didn't know how to handle it.