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Distributed Translation Project
moon unit beta writes "New Scientist has this story about a new plan to build a multi-language translation database called the World Wide Lexicon, using a distributed community of volunteers. The designer compares it to a distributed computing project and believes it could make it easier to translate more obscure languages."
I still love calculus!
is still the first motherfuckin' post
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
Now I will be able to translate my favorite porn stories into pig latin!
"linux fucking sucks" into Indian??? cuz that's where all yer geek boy jobs are going!!
Yes, if you like fantasizing about 45 year old men pretending to be 16 year old girls.
Hopefully never. Hotmail gargles donkey balls. How hard is it to set a Linux, or GASP!! Windows box running an MTA on your DSL connection. Wait.. are you one of those "technologists" that spouts off about implementations but doesn't know fucking jack and uses a hotmail account to send out resumes to the next sucke.. ahem, "client"??
who fucking cares!!
Who will make it hard once again?
Dear moderators.
Bozo here has cat hair in his mouse, and managed to 'redundant' instead of 'interesting' the previous article. (Atleast that's my story, and I'm sticking to it)
Translations of "fuck"
in the international language of business: billable hour or lawyer, e.g,
"They have outragious billable hour rates" = = "They have outragious fucking rates";
"That fuck just put us out of business" = = "That lawyer just put us out of business"
In military talk, "fuck" means "danger", e.g, "Gosh, what a large gorup of tanks coming our way!" = = "What the fuck!" Sometimes used in conjunction with "shitload"; "What the fuck! Call in an airstrike on that shitload of tanks!"
In law-enforcement "fuck" is used for the general citizenry: "All those fucks did something they just have not been caught."
Legal term "fuck" is spoken as "Hello."
Judges use the modified form of "fuck": "guilty".
Script kiddies "fuck" = = FuC|
Celebrity hackers use "fuck" as describing how they gained celebrity "The legal system fucked me!" (note, see Judges)
Brooklyn "fuck" is required in every sentence at least once or you will be skull fucked by Vinnie.
Term of endearment by wives: "That lazy fuck did not mow the yard."
All your base are belong to us.
Considered harmful.
I think it will be many years before a computer translation will ever be as good as a human translator!
"What thou shalt not, I shalt did!" -Bart Simpson