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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!
More methods for the enemy to be able to figure out your location. Just what troops need!
+5 Insightful, really!
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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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.
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"
...
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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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
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