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daegga
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 Message 1 of 7
06 March 2015 at 9:35pm | IP Logged 
I need your help in order to find a specific website I can't remember. I think it has been
posted on this forum before.
This site offered a bunch of bilingual dictionaries that were created using some
statistical algorithm. I think they used parallel bible translations and Wikipedia sites
for that.
Does anybody know what I mean and remember the link? I can't seem to find/google it.
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luke
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 Message 2 of 7
06 March 2015 at 9:48pm | IP Logged 
I like http://wordreference.com/.
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Doitsujin
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07 March 2015 at 7:18am | IP Logged 
Were you looking for OPUS by any chance?
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daegga
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07 March 2015 at 2:38pm | IP Logged 
Doitsujin wrote:
Were you looking for OPUS by any
chance?


Thanks, not the site I had in mind, but useful nontheless.

I still hope someone knowns the site I was talking about. If I remember correctly it was on
a Polish domain and had a very '90s design.
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Doitsujin
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 Message 5 of 7
07 March 2015 at 3:16pm | IP Logged 
The only other sites that come to mind are:

Wikt2dict (based on Wiktionary and bibles)

Wiktionary dictionaries (Matthias Buchmeier)





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Hampie
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 Message 6 of 7
12 March 2015 at 11:25pm | IP Logged 
I would say that they could be quite dangerous. I remember a mail someone got obviously translated
automatically that read, in Swedish:

Käre herr/bordellmamma

That is in English,
dear sir/bordello mother

Seems like some languages formal adress for women can mean something totally different in another context.
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techguy
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17 March 2015 at 3:33pm | IP Logged 
That language would be English.   A formal address in English would be "Dear Sir/Madam."
However the word "madam" can also be used to refer to a woman who manages a brothel.


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