Speaking of new features
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Did the same with my last article (into french my native language). The translation is mostly unintelligible (meaningless) garbage for a french speaker. Chris, forget it please:thumbsdown: cheers, AR
I tried a native-English one too, in case someone would suggest my article's English wasn't good enough for the automatic translator... Maybe they should offer the reverse: let us write in our native language, and either publish that or publish the automatic translation (which requires translation to English not from it). :-D :-D :-D
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But was it funny!? :)
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No :( Blithering idiot sounds better. This is just... words strewn together.
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Why won't the worm just leave me be?
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It should be simple enough so everyone can learn it easily, it should have a limited vocabulary, it should be devoid of ambiguity, and preferably very tolerant with respect to orthography. You wanted to suggest one? :)
Latin
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Latin
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Vulgar, classical or medieval?
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Has anyone tried reading translated articles? Scroll to the bottom of any article page and try out the Microsoft Translator widget ... we just added it. My language skills with my mother tongue are tentative enough without my attempting to see if the translations into other languages are accurate.
New? :wtf: Didn't Dictionary.com have a translator up and running like over 6 years ago??? Oh right. Its a widget now. That makes it new I guess... wait no... Google did that already a few years ago.
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Latin
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OK, works for me. You could have chosen worse. It will be a bit rusty at the start though. BTW: do you mean real Latin, or what the Yanks made of it? :)
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Vulgar, classical or medieval?
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Vulgar for VB Classical for C# Mediaeval for Macros Seems sensible to me.
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I tried it yesterday. Spent 15 minutes seeing how many different languages I could learn to write "Kiss my ass" in. Surprisingly it didn't work out so well :(
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It was in '09 when Jim visited Outer Craplepistan. Having translated many useful phrases through Microsoft he felt genuinely able to converse with the Boratesque populous. It was then he yelled his favourite phrase "Kiss my ass" in best Craplepistanish to a very ugly mustachioed woman. Unfortunately for Jim, due to a bizarre historical occurrence involving a 16th century monarch, 14 monkeys, 4 yards of rope, 3 concubines and a turnip, "Kiss my ass" was a colloquialism for "I demand your daughters hand in marriage". Jim was at first adamantly against the engagement, but the AK-47 has an uncanny means of persuasion ...
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OK, works for me. You could have chosen worse. It will be a bit rusty at the start though. BTW: do you mean real Latin, or what the Yanks made of it? :)
Real latin please. After what they did to English we can't trust them! :)
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Latin
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Speaking of languages, I have a small question about ours. You know words right, two or three at least? OK, 'Plausible' is it quantifiable? Would it be correct to say that something is the 'most plausible'? I say not, you would say 'most probable', or perhaps 'most feasible'. I know it's silly, but there's an argument that must be put to an end! :laugh:
My current favourite word is: Delicious!
-SK Genius
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Speaking of languages, I have a small question about ours. You know words right, two or three at least? OK, 'Plausible' is it quantifiable? Would it be correct to say that something is the 'most plausible'? I say not, you would say 'most probable', or perhaps 'most feasible'. I know it's silly, but there's an argument that must be put to an end! :laugh:
My current favourite word is: Delicious!
-SK Genius
I disagree. There may be several plausible reasons, one of which may be the most plausible. Do not confuse plausible with probable. It is also one of those words that means it's own opposite. Plausible is not always a good thing. qv a plausible liar
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
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Speaking of languages, I have a small question about ours. You know words right, two or three at least? OK, 'Plausible' is it quantifiable? Would it be correct to say that something is the 'most plausible'? I say not, you would say 'most probable', or perhaps 'most feasible'. I know it's silly, but there's an argument that must be put to an end! :laugh:
My current favourite word is: Delicious!
-SK Genius
IMHO you can make a statement more plausible by bringing on convincing arguments. I'm not sure I agree with your use of quantifiable though, it reminds me of enumerable. :)
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Real latin please. After what they did to English we can't trust them! :)
------------------------------------ "I am always serious about what I do, not necessarily about how I do it." Tom Baker
So your farmer would be an agricoula? :)
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IMHO you can make a statement more plausible by bringing on convincing arguments. I'm not sure I agree with your use of quantifiable though, it reminds me of enumerable. :)
"He is a most plausible liar" is acceptable. And yes I know it is a different case from "He is the most plausible liar".
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Well let's find out! Italian: Needz codez PLZ Heeelp Dutch: Needz Codez plz-Heeelp Arabic: Needz Codez Plz Heeelp Chinese (Traditional): Needz Codez 請 Heeelp French: Needz Codez Plz Heeelp German: Needz Codez PLZ Heeelp (notice the caps - Achtung meine Frau!) Japanese: Needz Codez only Heeelp Polish: Needz Codez Plz Heeelp Huh, it's part of the new Universal Language!
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Has anyone tried reading translated articles? Scroll to the bottom of any article page and try out the Microsoft Translator widget ... we just added it. My language skills with my mother tongue are tentative enough without my attempting to see if the translations into other languages are accurate.
I looked at a few articles translated to Spanish. They are readable, but the grammar isn't always quite correct, some words weren't translated, and some words aren't translated right either. That said, I still have to say it's a better translation than I expected and better than most software translations that I've seen.
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Thus the need for one single universal language. But what should it be? Hmmmm....
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Esperanto.
Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango
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It should be simple enough so everyone can learn it easily, it should have a limited vocabulary, it should be devoid of ambiguity, and preferably very tolerant with respect to orthography. You wanted to suggest one? :)
My vote is for C#. I can say what I want without orphaned pointers. The garbage collector will always clean up after me. And, I don't need to rely on context sensitive phrases like in English.
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Has anyone tried reading translated articles? Scroll to the bottom of any article page and try out the Microsoft Translator widget ... we just added it. My language skills with my mother tongue are tentative enough without my attempting to see if the translations into other languages are accurate.
Tried Italian, and it's just garbage. No surprise anyway: it's at the same level of other automatic translators. I would like an automatic translator to turn my poor English into a good one instead! :)
2+2=5 for very large amounts of 2 (always loved that one hehe!)
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Jeff Hadfield wrote:
From the Amazon.com Review: "Visual Basic (the programming environment Microsoft promotes for the purpose of creating good user interfaces)" Huh? What kind of lemon grass are they smoking? VB is good at *easily* creating UIs, but good ones? Puhlllease!!!
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Maybe the mean compared to Java?