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Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq
An anonymous reader writes "According to ScienceBlog, the U.S. Office of Naval Research, trying to keep friendly armies in Iraq from accidentally blowing each other to smithereens, is helping create software that connects instant messaging (IM) with machine translation (MT). The result: Chat software to be used in Iraq that automatically translates your messages into the correct language of the reader, called the the Coalition Chat Line - it's 'getting rave reviews from U.S. and allied-coalition personnel.'"
The US and UK troops will be able to understand each other! Two nations no longer divided by a common language :-)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
US Soldier: HELLO, HOW r U?
Translation: ACKMA AL I TA?
Iraqi: ALLAH KA RACKA JA!!!
Translation: Your mother sleeps with goats and your father sleeps with Bill Gates.
US Solider: LOL!!!!!
Translation: LOL!!!!!
Iraqi: XOXOX!
Translations: Hugs and Kisses!
More methods for the enemy to be able to figure out your location. Just what troops need!
+5 Insightful, really!
My bad. LOL :-(
Laters
What we say: "We want to help you."
What they hear: "All your base are belong to us!".
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Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
Maybe now the guy that works at the pizza place can finally understand my order. When does the public get this software?
Chat software to be used in Iraq that automatically translates your messages into the correct language of the reader, called the the Coalition Chat Line
Iraq doubleplusgood / Iraqpersons secure / foodwater supplies up 82% / Kerry verging crimethink / oldthinkers unbellyfeel Bush / think in Bushspeak.
The coolest voice ever.
Hoy hemos matado a un terrorista --> Today we to eat a dangerous ista.
:-)
Wir haben es nicht gewust --> Wine is not a sausage.
Wie wis joe a melly klistmas --> We whish you a Merry Christmas.
No offence meant.
fortune is my favourite linux command
US: our base is protected
translate
UK : Your Base is under control
translate
Pol : Your Base Is Inside our control
translate
Jap: All Your Base Are Belong To Us
translate
Iraq : Well No Sh!t sherlock.
END TRANSMISSION
--Idiots, Every single one of YOU, A flaming mass of conglomerated morons, hey wait a second, isnt that how RAID works?
The Mil Spec version of this story, courtesy of Babelfish:
An anonymous reader writes "in accordance with of ScienceBlog, the office of the research of the blue marine and the tests, of the roast meat in the United States the friendly armies in Iraq of the disturbance that to maintain those cause smithereens, to the application software locally those the communication (IM) immediately with a machine translation (M.Ue.), to attention. The result: One automatically translates of Plaudern in Iraq the software, those his publicity in the correct language of the reader, the city of Koalition-Schwaetzchen-Linie - ' it receives from Raveberichte of the United States and the coalition of the alliance of the personnel '
Mmmmmmm.... Roast meat!
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Whoops, I was just about to make a joke about emoticons from female American soldiers automatically displayed wearing veils at the other end, but it's the wrong country. I recycle that joke when this technology starts being used with Saudi Arabia or Iran.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Two nations no longer divided by a common language
Indeed. I can't tell you how many fights erupt when a Brit asks a Yank for a cigarette.
The coolest voice ever.
A real Universal Translator! Now if they can only fix these problems in time.
Friday it is posted by the machine translation and the American eastern standard time March 05th @ 13:10:57 bjs
of IM Iraqi front So, effectively and it is not, each other which for example the soldier and the commander who speak the language where the theater of war differs in order to transmit, by mistake is blown is obtained, how? TJ0 0N remove the instantly message software of the shelf, throw with the dose of machine translation. So it is the office of naval research.
From office of naval research: '
You chat in Iraq '
The troop of chat line help of combination to transmit The Iraqi United States and the allied forces the cruel enemy, face the new political substance, and the complicated environment of the culture which differs very. Challenge increases with the barrier of word: Many languages of ally where the Arabic and power of the Iraqi person have supported operation. However the technology which fund is supplied has helped the fact that the cultural gap is made narrow the United States and combined power the Iraqi person and by making that to transmit effectively in them themselves possible during the organizing other DoD today, depending upon the office of naval research.
Now around Iraq at the plural United States and the place where it has formed an alliance is used the "combined chat line" quickly and was well known in the teenager of the operator and some 1000000 where you speak the language which differs in order securely to transmit, using "instantly message" practice, it makes the commander possible. That in slow 2002, those with cost of custom translation practice and the method of decreasing lag, the fact that to transmit quickly and accurately is helped, leader secondary Superintendent naval force Europe of Jr. of the male deer of rear Adm. t., proposed the use stock technology of the American, United States and ally. Answering to that, the advisor of the science of ONR of naval European order the office of the solution of the technology of ONR and the work group of the mathematics of ONR, set up the computer and the information science section in order to modify the program which crith Hillenbrand and MITRE Corp. developed for the service program of plural other things.
The trim or trans-lingual instantly message was used, was integrated with the machine-translation engine from of Logomedia Corp., other commercial that the hardware. Result: Chat line of combination. Technology has obtained intense praising/supporting from the staff of the United States and alliance combination. Chat line technology was appraised during the effort which is connected by the practice of 2003 May where nation of 39 joins alliance combination. That furthermore, was appraised to June between chronology BALTOPS for power of nation of 12. The American alliance multi-national part which as for the call from the public official of the effort which is connected uses the technology between (MND) in the SPAWAR system center of the navy, the prototype chat line software the test was put in place through the circle whose San Diego is fast. That was tested simultaneously in San Diego; London; Stuttgart and Germany; And Baghdad. Hillenbrand and that team had the notebook PC of 10 in Iraq the chat line program and the load were concluded in November.
On the 4th those in Al Hilla installed the software in the headquarters of MND; The place moves with Karbala due to the unit of the Polish person; The Spanish operation of announcement Diwaniyah; And because of the Ukrainian of Al Kut group. The Ukrainian person could use the alphabet character set to which the chat line has been attached. The extent chat line function where MND installs that more in 200 unit computers of the public official of information system behavior proved validity and spread. Chat line prototype, passing by the headquarters network of MND, being made in the "clean extent", you call Hillenbrand. "Crossing order really," note
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American soldier: "Can you provide support? We're in a bit of a jam here"
Polish soldier 1: "What is he writing?"
Polish soldier 2: "He asks if we can prop him up, they are covered with a piece of marmelade"
I'm pretty sure that Babelfish is just a toy compared to the stuff you pay for.
However, I'd be impressed by the developers if they resisted the temptation to throw in "easter eggs" at one-in-a-million intervals. "please designate 8 of your troops for west bunker guard tonight" --> "your mother is as ugly as five camels and weighs more"
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*** IRAK_4EvR! smoked US_SOLDIER445 with a flying grenede
US_SOLDIER445: damn camper!
IRAK_4EvR!: hahaha, you have no skill!
*** US_SOLDIER445 starts a vote to kick IRAK_4EvR!
US_SOLDIER445: whatever dude, campers suck, you're the one with no skillz!
IRAK_4EvR!: as if
US_SOLDIER445: right, can you use any other weapon, or can you only use the grenede puker! get some skillz, try your luck with a sniper rifle if you're a real soldier of alaha! (haha!)
IRAK_4EvR!: lamer
*** IRAK_4EvR! smoked US_SOLDIER445 with a flying grenede
IRAK_4EvR!: eat that!
US_SOLDIER445: I WAS TYPING YOU LOSER!
IRAK_4EvR!: ROTFLOL!
free ipod and free gmail!
Like WMDs?
litigious bastards
suck it sco!
Iraqi: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Soldier: Sorry?
Iraqi I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Soldier: Uh, no, no, no. This is a patrol.
Iraqi: Ah! I will not buy this *patrol*, it is scratched.
Soldier: No, no, no, no. Patrol...um...military (holds up his rifle).
Iraqi: Ya! Mil-teh-ree! Ya! Uh...My hovercraft is full of eels.
Soldier: Sorry?
Iraqi: My hovercraft (pantomimes hefting a rifle)...is full of eels
Soldier: Ahh, insurgents!
Iraqi: Ya! Ya! Ya! Ya! Do you waaaaant...do you waaaaaant...to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
Soldier: Here, I don't think you're using that thing right.
Iraqi: You great poof.
Soldier: Look, just move along please.
Iraqi: If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? I...I am no longer infected.
Soldier: Uh, may I, uh...(takes notebook computer, types in a phrase)...Costs six and six...ah, here we are. (speaks weird Iraqi-sounding words)
Iraqi punches the soldier.
Polish reply: "Affirmative, we will give rise to your foodstuffs arriving in verbose penmanship."
litigious bastards
suck it sco!
English:
Hello. I am in Iraq. My Grid Coordinates are XY76543421, and I think that I may shoot at some guy that is pissing on the only tree out here.
In German:
Hallo. Ich bin im Irak. Meine Koordinaten des Rasterfeldes sind XY76543421, und ich denke, daB ich in irgendeine Einzelperson dieses pissing im einzigen Baum in Richtung zu drauBen werfen kann hier.
Into French:
Hallo. Je suis en Iraq. Mes coordonnees du champ de trame sont XY76543421, et moi-meme pensent que je peux jeter celui-ci dans un particulier pissing dans le seul arbre en direction dehors ici.
Back into English:
Hallo. I am in Iraq. My co-ordinates of the field of screen are XY76543421, and myself think that I can throw this one in a private individual pissing in the only steering shaft outside here.
Meaning: WTF?
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is full of eels!
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I was lucky to find a copy from #scriptkidz though.
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'chattin'' in iraq
teh k0aliti0n ch@ line help2 tr00p2 k0mmunikate
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teh ch@ line techn0l09y wa2 evaluated durin' teh may 2003 allied-k0aliti0n exerci2e k0m8ined endeav0r, in which 39 nati0n2 participated. it wa2 phurthah evaluated in june durin' teh annual 8alt0p2, ph0r teh ph0rce2 0f 12 nati0n2.
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teh ch@ line kapa8ility pr0ved 50 effective and p0pular th@ teh mnd in5talled it 0n teh m0re than 200 k0mputer2 0f their inf0rmati0n-5y5tem2 acti0n 0fficer2. teh ch@ line pr0t0type, hillen8rand 5ay2, "made a clean 5weep" thr0u9h teh mnd central netw0rk.
"teh wh0le eff0rt really extended acr055 k0mmand2," n0te2 hillen8rand, "it'2 taken 0ff like a phrei9ht train 0n teh run." teh pr0ject i2 a k0lla80rati0n 0f 0nr, 5pawar, eur0pean k0mmand, and teh u.2. central k0mmand--a2 well a2 teh allie2. teh team n0w i2 re5p0ndin' t0 rekwe5t2 ph0r teh ch@ line kapa8ility phr0m teh u.2. 5eni0r army k0mmandah in iraq, lt. 9en. rikard0 5anche2 and teh 8riti5h k0mmandah in 50uthern iraq.
Why this will never fly.
#10 Some of our Middle Eastern allies will become
offended by always being greeted with the
message, "Are you female?"
#9 Enemy troops will always know our location
simply by logging on as "1337BustyBlonde" and
typing "a/s/l"
#8 "Dood, ph33r my m4d fr@gg1ng ski11z" doesn't
have the same ring as "Mess with the best, die
like the rest."
#7 Along those same lines, "All your base are
belong to us" does not have the same ring
as "Veni, Vidi, Vici"
#6 Spammers will be responsable for one of the
worst military blunders in history when carpet
bombing *.mil domains with "Free Disney World
Vacation" spam initiates the carpet bombing of
Disney World with several thousand tons of high
explosives.
#5 Less technically inclined officers will bring
the entire system to its knees when the click on
the *.jpg.exe link and release the latest virus
threat.
#4 Our leadership ranks will be wiped out by our
own troops when above mentioned officers give the
excuse "I didn't think the virus would affect us.
I mean, we are all wearing our biohazard gear."
#3 Troops will be too busy reading Slashdot
#2 NO MORE WAR! Troops will be too busy buying
Vi@gra and "Organ enhancement" pills to shoot
people.
AND THE NUMBER ONE REASON THIS WILL NEVER WORK...
#1 The main IM server will be broken by some
dweeb named "Cowboy Neal" who puts his canteen in
the "cup holder"
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass
Never flame the guy with the flamethrower ;)