Speaking of new features
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Thus the need for one single universal language. But what should it be? Hmmmm....
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Esperanto.
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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?
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"I am my fish with a prehensile hat" That kind of thing?
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More like "Bitte beachten Sie der El Corazon von (ehemaligen) Unterzeichnung des Mäuse und Decken hindurch. " so, yeah.
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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 am with Mustafa here, bad automatic translations were funny in the last century. Butchering my language now mostly triggers a primal "fight or... fight!" reflex. First off, please promise me one thing: Never ever show me an automated translation when I don't explicitely ask for it. Otherwise, I will stop talking to you! (hey, that's a dire threat, ok?) Of all the annoyances of MSDN, it's the single offensive one. Second, it WOULD be cool if we could FIX the translations, wiki-like, maybe "gold members and above". Do you think you guys could let us? Could you? Could you?
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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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This story reminds me of all those SPAM emails that have bits and pieces of random articles, lore, and stories - all glued together - same kind of odd read. It was YOU! LOL
Know way to many languages... master of none!
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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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All week long I wait for Friday when I can troll The Lounge and read up. Yet another Friday and I'm not disappointed by the wit and huomor.
MidwestLimey wrote:
Jim was at first adamantly against the engagement, but the AK-47 has an uncanny means of persuasion ...
Thanks all! :laugh:
Mike Devenney
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Latin
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AMEN! Not English. I had a hard enough time learning it the first time around.
Mike Devenney
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All week long I wait for Friday when I can troll The Lounge and read up. Yet another Friday and I'm not disappointed by the wit and huomor.
MidwestLimey wrote:
Jim was at first adamantly against the engagement, but the AK-47 has an uncanny means of persuasion ...
Thanks all! :laugh:
Mike Devenney
It wasn't so bad, once you shaved off the beard...
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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.
Altavista's babelfish service has been around at least 10 years. Best named translator of the bunch. :)
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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 say the quantifiability of plausible is infinitely deniable and neither is it enumerable, in other words its a singularity, but don't tell Microsoft otherwise they'll hit us all with breach of copyright claims.