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Bing Translator Adds Klingon

Posted by Soulskill on from the 'oH-QaQ-jaj,-mugh dept.

Today Microsoft made an addition to its Bing translation service: the Klingon language. You can now easily read up on proper grooming habits for your Targ, learn how to perform routine maintenance on your painstiks, and brush up on your Shakespeare. You can also brush up on your tlhIngan Hol by reading your favorite websites through a translation filter. The timing is no coincidence; Star Trek: Into Darkness is coming out on Friday. Qapla'

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  1. It doesn't actually work by MobyDisk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Klingon language isn't actually complete, so if it encounters a word that has no translation it just makes-up something by adding unpronounceable letters in place of real ones. Unless it starts with a capital letter at which point it knows it was a proper name. Examples:
    Microsoft --> microsoft
    microsoft --> mIchroSotlht
    what stinks is that it isn't smart enough to reverse the process:
    mIchroSotlht --> michrosokt