Re: Re: FT: Ship Names

devans@nebraska.edu schrieb:
> 
> ***
> AFAIK the Russians have always named their destroyers,
> usually after qualities - e.g. Bravy (brave) or naval heroes of
junior
> rank - e.g. Leitenant Ilyin.
> ***
> 
> Then I'll get out the Pycckii/English dictionary and
> crank out some names
> ASAP! ;->-

Here's a pretty good web translator for Russian:
http://www.translate.ru/

One for Arabic
http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ajeeb/default.asp?lang=1

And two able to handle Chinese and Japanese:
http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
http://world.altavista.com/

For ship names of real navies, hazegray is hard to beat:
http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/

Greetings
Karl Heinz