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How does this work, is it word for word? Based on known sentances? or is it a combinatio of above and heuristic's? Just curious :) I'm drinking triples, seeing double and acting single
Definitely not word-for-word. MS Research has a project you might find interesting: http://research.microsoft.com/nlp/
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Once a writer said that he would like to have his book translated English, from English to German, from German to Spanish, from Spanish to Japanese, and so on until it reaches 19 different languages, one after another. Then, he would translate the book back to the original language and would have a completely new story! :) Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. -- Bruce Schneier By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
You can try that right now with Babelfish[^] ;) Thank you for the lovely post card. Merci de la belle carte de poteau. Danke für die schöne Mastkarte. Thanks for the beautiful mast map. :wtf: --Mike-- Ericahist [updated Oct 26] | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber Kosh reminded me of some of the prima-donna programmers I've worked with. Knew everything but when you asked them a question; never gave you a straight answer. -- Michael P. Butler in the Lounge
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[part 1] You're right, thre is no system in articles, you have to memorize every single word. That's quite funny with lean words that have just been "imported" from other languages. They don't have a definite article, so the first magazine which uses the word sets the standard :-) Afer all...there are so many immigrants living in Germany - people should have learned by now to understand wrong articles. Why learn them at all? :-D [part 2] Why the hell do so many CPians learn german? There are only three countries where you an make use of that strange (*g*) language. Do you expect you'll have to flee to Switzerland in near future? People understand french there, too.
Corinna John wrote: Why the hell do so many CPians learn german? There are only three countries where you an make use of that strange (*g*) language. Well, I thought it would be cool to learn a fourth language. ;) I am still young and I want to learn as much as I can before it is too late :rolleyes: But I am open to other suggestions too: I thought about Spanish at first. But to be honest, I did not like that language. When my Spanish friends talk, all I hear is RRRRRRRRRRRR :) But please guys, this is not for offense. Just my sincere thoughts. Then I thought Russian may be a fine choice. Then I got scared cause I even need to learn a new alphabet. Apart from that, there is the beautiful French. But I heard that it is much harder to learn French then German :~ Moreover, as an Electrical Engineer, German may be more useful for me. But I am open to suggestions. Which language is a good choice in your opinion? Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com
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Corinna John wrote: Why the hell do so many CPians learn german? There are only three countries where you an make use of that strange (*g*) language. Well, I thought it would be cool to learn a fourth language. ;) I am still young and I want to learn as much as I can before it is too late :rolleyes: But I am open to other suggestions too: I thought about Spanish at first. But to be honest, I did not like that language. When my Spanish friends talk, all I hear is RRRRRRRRRRRR :) But please guys, this is not for offense. Just my sincere thoughts. Then I thought Russian may be a fine choice. Then I got scared cause I even need to learn a new alphabet. Apart from that, there is the beautiful French. But I heard that it is much harder to learn French then German :~ Moreover, as an Electrical Engineer, German may be more useful for me. But I am open to suggestions. Which language is a good choice in your opinion? Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com
"What we do in life echoes in eternity" - Gladiator
It's not that I'm lazy, it's just that I just don't careMustafa Demirhan wrote: Which language is a good choice in your opinion? Chinese. Not only do they outnumber the rest of us, but with the continuing trend toward outsourcing manufacturing, many jobs will eventually depend on having language skills that include it. I've already seen a number of jobs advertised in engineering that require fluency in Chinese and I don't expect that to go away anytime soon.:) "Your village called -
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How does this work, is it word for word? Based on known sentances? or is it a combinatio of above and heuristic's? Just curious :) I'm drinking triples, seeing double and acting single
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Mustafa Demirhan wrote: Which language is a good choice in your opinion? Chinese. Not only do they outnumber the rest of us, but with the continuing trend toward outsourcing manufacturing, many jobs will eventually depend on having language skills that include it. I've already seen a number of jobs advertised in engineering that require fluency in Chinese and I don't expect that to go away anytime soon.:) "Your village called -
They're missing their idiot."Even learning Russian alphabet scared me, I guess learning Chinese alphabet would be fun ;) But you are absolutely right. Knowing Chinese for Europeans and Americans will be very valuable in short/medium term I guess. But I dont think I need to do outsourcing when I go back to Turkey :) It is not as cheap as China, but still much cheaper than US... Oh by the way, I would love to understand those chinese crack sites that cracked the old version of my program. I would have kicked their asses ;) Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com
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Door is feminine in German *g* I always wondered why "the world" is female (die Welt), and "the error" is masculine (der Fehler), and all children are neutral ("the child" - "das Kind"). But believe me - you get used to weird articles :-) Anyway, you can speak in plural words - there is only one plural articles, "die". More than one is always feminine... and the best way to speak german is to speak without thinking about the details of language... The article is now "der" which is the masculine article in nominative form No, definitly not! There are three different articles: The male nominative, and the female genitive, and the female passive however-they-call-it. All three articles are "der", but it is not the same "der"... But now let's look at time forms: In english you have past perfect, simple past, past progressive, presence progressive, simple presence, and a heap of future-forms. In german you don't have to care about the time, as long as people understand what you mean. I still have some problems with choosing the correct tense in an english sentence. ment of terror is the beginning of life. That's true, in any language!
Corinna John wrote: I still have some problems with choosing the correct tense in an english sentence. Most native English speakers have the same problem! You do exceptionally well, in writing, at least.:) "Your village called -
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Once a writer said that he would like to have his book translated English, from English to German, from German to Spanish, from Spanish to Japanese, and so on until it reaches 19 different languages, one after another. Then, he would translate the book back to the original language and would have a completely new story! :) Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. -- Bruce Schneier By the way, dog_spawn isn't a nickname - it is my name with an underscore instead of a space. -- dog_spawn
:) That would be funny... I watched a episode on American frontiers or something like that and the host was talking with a fellow who was a computer scientist and they were developing/developed a system which could translate english to german well enough that 2 human parties could use it and communicate back and forth. Not perfectly, but they understood each other. The word of the day is legs, let's go back to my house and spread the word ;P
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Definitely not word-for-word. MS Research has a project you might find interesting: http://research.microsoft.com/nlp/
Thanks I'll check it out :) The word of the day is legs, let's go back to my house and spread the word ;P
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Sure you know what I had written if I didn't watch my language...