"The real impact they had was in the 18th Century when people read Galland's French translation, " he says.

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She grew up in the village and wrote the piece - a translation from French of the text of the early world atlas of Ortelius - when she was aged 12 or 13.

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In addition, the new Reader line offers users on-screen functionality to look up words and phrases with the built-in New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition and Oxford Dictionary of English eDictionaries, as well as 10 translation dictionaries in languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

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Ives just finished "The Metromaniacs, " a play adapted from a French comedy from 1738 that was so obscure no English translation existed.

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While Mr Stora's book (a translation, at times awkward, of three volumes in French) encompasses the whole narrative of modern Algeria, from the first landings of the conquering French, through their ignominious departure and on to Algeria's present agony, Irwin Wall contents himself with just one episode of that narrative: the struggle for independence.

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GlobalTV uses machine translation of the closed captioning text to produce subtitles in Spanish, French, German, English, Portuguese or Italian.

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It even does offline single-word translation between Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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