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Earlier this week security reporter Brian Krebs pointed out an odd glitch in Google Translate. It had to do with the service’s treatment of “Lorem Ipsum” placeholder text—the string of Latin words that people use to block out space for text on and launched a facility to translate into and from a dead language: Latin. Google titled its blog post announcing the news "Veni, vidi, verba verti" (I came, I saw, I translated the words) and the rest of the body is in Latin too. Google notes that only a Google added a Latin-to-English translation tool today. Not great quality, but it makes for some unintentionally funny reading. You can read the original Google post here (all in Latin), but here's what you get when you translate the post using their own "We are excited to announce our first translation system for a language with no native speakers at all," the Web search and advertising company said in a statement. Google said the service (www.translate.google.com) would be useful for the more than While I did have to take Latin in 7th and 8th grade, most of it has either been stashed away deep in the recesses of my brain or forgotten. Probably the latter. However, I really like the fact that Google Translate can now translate into Latin, which is But users with the standard US keyboard may find it most useful for writing text in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and other languages not based on the Latin alphabet. Simply handwrite each character, and Google Translate displays it at the top of the screen. .

Despite some recent concerns over a potential security flaw, it turns out that the Google Translate apps on the computer Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian Google announced a few new small features added recently. (1) Google Translate added Latin as a new language. Google said, “although considered a “dead language” by many, Latin is still studied by hundreds of thousands of students worldwide and is Android: Google's Goggles app for Android German and Spanish and can translate to many more languages. We are hard at work extending our recognition capabilities to other Latin-based languages. Our goal is to eventually read non-Latin languages Google Translate can often be inaccurate, especially with non-European, non-Latin based languages, which leads to iffy results. Plenty of linguistic guesswork would likely be needed on the part of the users for something like this to find real-world .