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Iraq
March 27, 2003
US Military Technology Used to Help Heal Iraqi Soldiers

US Marines on the front lines are using a device called the Phraselator, which translates phrases from English to Arabic. The device helps them to communicate with wounded Iraqi POWs so that their wounds can be properly diagnosed and treated.

Posted By cranky at March 27, 2003 11:48 AM | TrackBack
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How Star Trek of them.

Posted by: telzey at March 27, 2003 11:51 AM

The Phraselator? Sounds like something the professor on the Simpsons would invent.

Posted by: mg at March 27, 2003 12:02 PM

Let's hope it dosn't have any bugs: "May I fondle your bottom?" (False phrase book in Monty Python sketch)

Posted by: Dave Farrell at March 27, 2003 01:53 PM
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