One thing this article gave me was a link to babel fish, so I added it to my Favorites. Maybe I'll eventually try to
figure out how to work it. It looked pretty daunting to me.

Daunting? Babelfish is one of the funniest sites on the Web, IMHO. It and all its clones are hilarious! Try taking a favourite piece of poetry, translate it fromEnglish to anything else, then translate the result back into English, and you will see a painfully funny reminder of the limitations of technology as a replacement for the human intellect.