OT: Wow, Google Translate does Latin now. I've been wanting this for so long!

It's at http://translate.google.com. It's still in Alpha, but you can play around with it. Select Latin as the "From" language and your native tongue as the "To" language, and type or paste something in Latin.

They've obviously been testing the common phrases and making sure they work OK:

Not perfect, though:

They ought to test it on Logos's Latin corpus. They've still got some work to do...

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DominicM

sweet, by the time you put them right as to the "error of their ways" will be a useful tool.. 30 years since I did latin, its very rusty..

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/200532#Comment_200532

When they get it right, I'd love to see Logos license the code from them so we can have an auto-translate feature in Logos for those pesky Latin phrases that appear in theological works (sans translation) all the time. And French and German too, from time to time. Oh and might as well throw in Greek and Hebrew while we're at it. But then again, many of us are teaching ourselves those, so we wouldn't want to cheat now, would we...

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/200534#Comment_200534

, I'd love to see Logos license the code from them

Hmmm.

Would we need to have a license in order for a right click menu option to (A) read the language tag of the selected text (Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English) and then (B) tag it to the end of a URL and send it to the browser? http://translate.google.com/#ht|en|mwen%20kontan (Note: Creole Example)