Googlish (satire)
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In the aftermath of World War III, the few survivors tried to piece together what had gone so horribly wrong, as all memory of civilization rapidly receded in the daily fight for survival. The time line was roughly as follows: 2014: Google did a major revamping of Google Translate, the language tools that performed translations of human languages. Google Translate supported at that time 51 languages, which implied a total of 2550 language-to-language combinations in order to provide all possible translations, for example between Ukrainian and Catalan. Instead of having to implement and maintain all these many combinations, Google created a new artificial language, Googlish, with a simple grammar and a completely unambiguous vocabulary. Now all translations were done in two steps, first from language A to Googlish, and then from Googlish to language B. The result was not only a huge reduction in the number of language combinations needed to be supported (from 2550 to 51) but increased quality of the translations. 2019: The number of languages supported by Google Translate had increased to 103, covering every human language spoken by 5 million people or more, or about 95% of the world's population's native languages. Most web sites and chat forums had become multilingual, in that everyone could view the site in their own language and contribute in their own language, thanks to Googlish. But the more exciting news was that the language processing techniques used by Google Translate had been applied to speech recognition. Google was now providing an online service that transcribed spoken words as written text, and with greater accuracy than previous methods. 2021: In a rather obvious further development of its technologies, Google Translate was now, with the help of Googlish, transcribing words spoken in one language into written text in any other language. The number of supported human languages was now up to 152, covering approx. 98% of the native languages of the peoples of the world. 2024: In another rather obvious development, Google Translate was able to read aloud text in any of the 174 supported languages. So now one person could say something in one language, and Google would recognize the speech, internally translate it into Googlish, then translate it to the second language and read it aloud to another person. 2027: Google Translate software was being licensed by most manufacturers of mobile telephones. Language skills were no longer a barrier to communications - just about any two peo
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In the aftermath of World War III, the few survivors tried to piece together what had gone so horribly wrong, as all memory of civilization rapidly receded in the daily fight for survival. The time line was roughly as follows: 2014: Google did a major revamping of Google Translate, the language tools that performed translations of human languages. Google Translate supported at that time 51 languages, which implied a total of 2550 language-to-language combinations in order to provide all possible translations, for example between Ukrainian and Catalan. Instead of having to implement and maintain all these many combinations, Google created a new artificial language, Googlish, with a simple grammar and a completely unambiguous vocabulary. Now all translations were done in two steps, first from language A to Googlish, and then from Googlish to language B. The result was not only a huge reduction in the number of language combinations needed to be supported (from 2550 to 51) but increased quality of the translations. 2019: The number of languages supported by Google Translate had increased to 103, covering every human language spoken by 5 million people or more, or about 95% of the world's population's native languages. Most web sites and chat forums had become multilingual, in that everyone could view the site in their own language and contribute in their own language, thanks to Googlish. But the more exciting news was that the language processing techniques used by Google Translate had been applied to speech recognition. Google was now providing an online service that transcribed spoken words as written text, and with greater accuracy than previous methods. 2021: In a rather obvious further development of its technologies, Google Translate was now, with the help of Googlish, transcribing words spoken in one language into written text in any other language. The number of supported human languages was now up to 152, covering approx. 98% of the native languages of the peoples of the world. 2024: In another rather obvious development, Google Translate was able to read aloud text in any of the 174 supported languages. So now one person could say something in one language, and Google would recognize the speech, internally translate it into Googlish, then translate it to the second language and read it aloud to another person. 2027: Google Translate software was being licensed by most manufacturers of mobile telephones. Language skills were no longer a barrier to communications - just about any two peo
Just a minor thing... Jenifer Lopez is not spanish ;P
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Just a minor thing... Jenifer Lopez is not spanish ;P
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
We're talking about the future and this Jo lo is!
Weight loss Target Weight at start [1/Feb/2009] 127kg Weight now [17/Feb/2010] 97.5kg Target weight : 80kg Only 17.5 to go hope to be there by July Wish me luck!
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Just a minor thing... Jenifer Lopez is not spanish ;P
Regards. -------- M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpfull answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
And I'm pretty sure the google translate understanding and reading out speech thing already exists
Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!