How messed Babel Fish communication the international
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, November 9 2007 10:13
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This is a headline I have been waiting for for years. :D -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, November 9 2007 10:49
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Ha! Longer article here. He mixed up "ha'im" with either "ha'em" or "ha'ima." Good going. -------------------- "Of course, not all technology is good. Some is exactly the opposite (bad)." — Dave Barry Posts: 458 | Registered: Friday, August 6 2004 07:00 |
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Nuke and Pave
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written Friday, November 9 2007 12:13
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Nice. :.p babelfish fun, particularly, was if you ask over for it, in order to translate your text between several of languages back and forth, then during I always forms here. EDIT: It seems they don't even have a consistent vocabulary list for a given language: English->Russian translator converted "back and forth between several languages" into "back and forth между несколькими языков" (leaving the idiomatic expression "back and forth" untranslated), while English->German translator output "zwischen einigen Sprachen hin und her zu" (which even uses a corresponding German expression). [ Friday, November 09, 2007 12:23: Message edited by: Zeviz ] -------------------- Be careful with a word, as you would with a sword, For it too has the power to kill. However well placed word, unlike a well placed sword, Can also have the power to heal. Posts: 2649 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, November 9 2007 12:26
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This is why you still need humans. Although it's a poor program that makes that many mistakes. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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written Friday, November 9 2007 13:47
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Unfortunately, humans make just as many mistakes as computers. Perhaps more. -------------------- Synergy, et al - "I don't get it." Thralni - "a lot of people are ... too weird to be trusted" Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, November 9 2007 13:52
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In calculation. Not in language. -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Raven v. Writing Desk
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written Friday, November 9 2007 16:12
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So, I have a new stupid game idea. You know that Wikipedia connection game where you have to get from, say, Albert Einstein to Rainbow Brite in 5 links, or whatever? You could run it using Babelfish. Say you have to get from "smart" to "dumb" in as few translations as possible (rather appropriately). Of course, you can't edit the results; you can only resubmit them. — Slartucker, who finds Alorael's way of signing off uniquely appropriate when he has to say to his own idea, perhaps not. -------------------- Slarty vs. Desk • Desk vs. Slarty • Timeline of Ermarian • G4 Strategy Central "Making poorly-sourced claims is not the same as determining something." Posts: 3560 | Registered: Wednesday, November 7 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, November 10 2007 00:18
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There are probably many literally impossible word pairs. You could have a contest to see who could get the most hilarious results from a given phrase, but Six Degrees of Linguistic Butchery would just end up being dead ends too often. —Alorael, who can only suggest this comic as the ultimate result of Babelfish. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |