A bishop called Wulfila (Ulfilas) is the man that translated the Bible to the Gothic language. Although the Gothic tribes were assimilated to other peoples and the language is no more spoken, the work of Wulfila is still very important.
The Gothic bible is the far most important written source of an East-Germanic language that got extinct more than a 1000 years ago.
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For those that like machine-translation, the past years have been really exciting. Thanks to the Google’s machine translation API, there was an increasing number of fancy machine-translation gadgets that brought machine-translation to the user’s desktop in a very comfortable way.
Unfortunately Google no more offers theire machine-translation service for free for programmers. So we can say goodbye to all the nice and free machine-translation gadgets that we used.
As of today I don’t know any free machine-translation gadget that I could install on my desktop.
Perhaps I should revive the WinXLator project. WinXLator was a machine-translation gadget that was very simple to use. This gadget was based on Apertium machine-translation technology. The biggest benefit of WinXLator over Google translator was that it didn’t require Internet connection to work; all the files needed were installed on the PC.
WinXLator — the free machine-translation app — was released 1½ years ago but withdrawn later. WinXLator couldn’t compete with the Google-based machine-translation gadgets. The bottle-neck was the limited number of supported language-pairs.
But perhaps we should give WinXLator a second try. And also give users a free machine-translation gadget?
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