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  Posted by Stephen Ingham on 5 September 2007 at 15:22

  hi all, can anyone translate the following phases in german, french and polish:

  WAY OUT

  ENTRY ONLY

  any help appreciated

  cheers
  stephen

  Peter Normington replied 18 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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• 

  Frank_Galloway

  Member

  5 September 2007 at 15:30

  type ‘Babelfish’ into Google 😉

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  Hugh Potter

  Member

  5 September 2007 at 18:08

  quote ste68blue:

  hi all, can anyone translate the following phases in german, french and polish:

  WAY OUT

  ENTRY ONLY

  any help appreciated

  cheers
  stephen

  hang on, trying to remember my language lessons…

  German

  erm,

  ‘vay oot, ‘

  and

  ‘een onli’

  French….

  entry only…… auntré onilee.

  never did polish, sorry !

  might not be accurate though 😉

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  Stephen Ingham

  Member

  5 September 2007 at 21:22

  cheers all..all sorted the bablefish is brill..

  cheers
  stephen

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  Peter Normington

  Member

  5 September 2007 at 21:28

  Stephen,
  babel fish translates, but not always in the correct way, for example, way out and exit are different in both french and german

  so I would make sure you have the correct in context translation

  Peter

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  Stephen Ingham

  Member

  5 September 2007 at 21:39

  hi peter, yes i tried translating it back again and it appears to work ok.

  cheers
  stephen

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  Peter Normington

  Member

  5 September 2007 at 21:43

  all I can say is dont trust it, ausweg or ausfhart?

  Peter

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