How Much Can Babel Fish Translate at Once?
Babel Fish is designed to translate up to about 5K of text at a time (about 800 words or two standard, double-spaced pages). If you enter text that exceeds the limit or if you attempt to translate a very long Web page (over 5 K), the service translates up to the limit and then stops. Occasionally, a Web page you want to translate is on a slow server or the server has a poor network connection. Check by going to the Web address without using Babel Fish. If the original page is displayed very slowly or not at all, the problem is with the Web site you are trying to read. Try translating it another time. If you have copied a text passage that exceeds the 1000 character limit, both the translation and the original text you pasted into the translation box will be cut off. Copy and paste in small sections and translate each section separately. If you don’t believe that the text is too long or the Web site server too slow, try your translation again. If the translation stops abruptly again, le
