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Speaking in Tongues

Posted by michael on from the da5id dept.

Desert1 writes "Carnegie Mellon's renowned computer science department has developed a system which allows for conversation between two different languages called Tongues. Currently this has been used between Croatian and English, perhaps one day they will be able to develop one that will allow politicians to talk to normal folks and be understood." It's been in development for a while.

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  1. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yay!

    1. Re:First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You did it! You're a hero!

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    probably not fp tyro!!!

  3. First post by HeLLaLaMe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Woo Hoo

    1. Re:First post by HeLLaLaMe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      A least I was registered, therefor I win

  4. My roomate is Croatian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I met him freshman year of College. I went to Croatia last year during the summer to hang out with him and his friends. I know a few little phrases, but I'm sure I can't spell them.

    Every Croatian I came into contact with spoke english well enough for me to understand. It was funny to hear from my roomate that he had never heard his friends speak in English.

    Croatia is full of attractive girls, which is probably why the guys at CMU picked it... Why else pick such an obscure language?

    Oh, I have a geocities webpage with pictures from my trip. If the bandwidth doesn't run out, try
    www.geocities.com/lukewallace/pictures/europe2001/

    Bok.

  5. Oh come on.. this has been done years ago by jaxdahl · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't you remember? Douglas Adams invented the Babel Fish in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This is old news guys.. the /. editors are taking the meaning of 'duplicate posts' to another new level! Hahaha.. ha... C'mon laugh. .. or i'll bite your ass

  6. Re:I don't need one. by PaleBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    boo that the parent of this post got modded down. Hitchhiker's Guide was a great book, great game.

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