... Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat is re- garded in the nature of a miracle. For the general case, it would seem that characterizing a sample of the translator’s art as a good translation ... [Mechanical Translation, Vol.6, November 1961] A New Approach to the Mechanical Syntactic Analysis of Russian by Ida Rhodes*, National Bureau of Standards This paper categorically rejects the ... considering a word- to- word conversion as a translation. A true translation is unattainable, even by the human agent, let alone by mechanical means. However, a crude practical translation is probably...