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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 6747657" data-attributes="member: 5100">I was going to say that it gives you the basic inter-language dictionary meaning or, say, Google Translate.Not having heard of the issue you mentioned (and being completely clueless in Chinese), I decided to use Bing Translate (because I can). It auto-detected &quot;no&quot; as Spanish and gave me a single character back. I noticed the auto-detect and set the input to English, which gave me a different, two character answer. Using Google Translate, both English and Spanish convert to the two-character answer. You can mock Bing all you want, but there has to be some rationale for such a simple translation. I'd love to know what it is. Translating back, the one character version translates to &quot;do not&quot;, FWIW.Anyway, my original thought stands, I'd think. Comprehend Languages is the D&amp;D equivalent of a computer translator, probably at the level we currently possess. Subtle references and idioms will be missed, but the dictionary values will be there.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 6747657, member: 5100"] I was going to say that it gives you the basic inter-language dictionary meaning or, say, Google Translate. Not having heard of the issue you mentioned (and being completely clueless in Chinese), I decided to use Bing Translate (because I can). It auto-detected "no" as Spanish and gave me a single character back. I noticed the auto-detect and set the input to English, which gave me a different, two character answer. Using Google Translate, both English and Spanish convert to the two-character answer. You can mock Bing all you want, but there has to be some rationale for such a simple translation. I'd love to know what it is. Translating back, the one character version translates to "do not", FWIW. Anyway, my original thought stands, I'd think. [I]Comprehend Languages[/I] is the D&D equivalent of a computer translator, probably at the level we currently possess. Subtle references and idioms will be missed, but the dictionary values will be there. [/QUOTE]

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