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  • GuchiGuh
    Comic Relief
    • Jun 2002
    • 1656

    #16
    Originally posted by cjolley
    谁可能帮助与我粗劣的英国拼写吗?


    SIMPLIFIED!!

    MAINLANDER ALERT!!!


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    • Nowhere
      Super MURCer
      • Jun 2002
      • 4830

      #17
      Originally posted by Sasq
      Used it. Not a solution unfortuantelly...actually, works pretty bad. And there probably won't be good automatic PL<->ENG translator for some time...
      Why you ask? Easiest example:
      Ally has a cat.

      And now how I can say it:
      Ala ma kota.
      Ala kota ma.
      Ma Ala kota.
      Ma kota Ala.
      Kota Ala ma.
      Kota ma Ala.
      And all of them are equally correct...and that's just easiest example; so machines tend to freak out when trying to translate something more complicated...

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      • VJ
        Moderator
        • Mar 2001
        • 9733

        #18
        Originally posted by Nowhere
        And all of them are equally correct...and that's just easiest example; so machines tend to freak out when trying to translate something more complicated...
        Don't any of these start to sound like Yoda?
        normal: Ally has a cat.
        yoda: A cat Ally has.



        Jörg
        pixar
        Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)

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        • Umfriend
          Crabby Smurf
          • Mar 2001
          • 7308

          #19
          Originally posted by VJ
          Does a local dialect count?

          "Oat da meucht, toens peinz ekik dat er ier nie vele mensch'n zien die min Ostèns dialect hoed hoan kunnnn vertoalen..."



          Jörg
          However it may be (? "Oat da meucht" ?), still I do not think that there are a lot of people that can translate my Ostends dialect well
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          • Nowhere
            Super MURCer
            • Jun 2002
            • 4830

            #20
            Originally posted by VJ
            Don't any of these start to sound like Yoda?
            normal: Ally has a cat.
            yoda: A cat Ally has.



            Jörg
            If one would say all of them in the same intonation as the first one, then some of them, yes, slightly. But only then...

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            • Kurt
              Super MURCer
              • Feb 2000
              • 1839

              #21
              Originally posted by Umfriend
              However it may be (? "Oat da meucht" ?), still I do not think that there are a lot of people that can translate my Ostends dialect well
              4 or 5 is plenty enough

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              • Brian Ellis
                Super MURCer
                • Sep 1999
                • 9623

                #22
                Δεν καταλαβαίνω τίποτα

                This is what I say when a local exceeds Mach 1 in the local lingo
                Brian (the devil incarnate)

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                • VJ
                  Moderator
                  • Mar 2001
                  • 9733

                  #23
                  Originally posted by Umfriend
                  However it may be (? "Oat da meucht" ?), still I do not think that there are a lot of people that can translate my Ostends dialect well
                  Oat da meucht = Als dat mag...

                  Ok, but you have to admit there weren't that many odd dialect words in the sentence...


                  Jörg
                  pixar
                  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)

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                  • Nowhere
                    Super MURCer
                    • Jun 2002
                    • 4830

                    #24
                    Oh, and one more problem with the automatic translation: in the local dialect, that I use slightly, "no" means often "yes" (no, I'm not a woman)

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                    • cjolley
                      Super MURCer
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 7672

                      #25
                      Originally posted by schmosef
                      The english wasn't there before. He must have edited his post. Or maybe I just didn't see it.
                      I have no idea what you are talking about.
                      我没有想法什么ä½*æ*£åœ¨è°ˆè®ºã€‚


                      Originally posted by GuchiGuh
                      MAINLANDER ALERT!!!
                      Well yes, yes she was.
                      Me, I'm just along for the ride.


                      PS. I think it's a great idea too.
                      Chuck
                      秋音的爸爸

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                      • Sasq
                        Administrator
                        • Jan 2001
                        • 4635

                        #26
                        that reminds me, she should have a bday comming up soonish, off to saipan at the end of the month, will have to get her a saipanda
                        Juu nin to iro


                        English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

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                        • Nappe1
                          MURCer
                          • Jul 2000
                          • 561

                          #27
                          Originally posted by cjolley
                          I have no idea what you are talking about.
                          我没有想法什么�*�*�在谈论。
                          Minulla ei ole aavistustakaan mitä sinä puhut.

                          Originally posted by cjolley
                          PS. I think it's a great idea too.
                          JK. Minunkin mielestäni se on tosi hyvä idea.


                          Like this.
                          Että näin.
                          "Dippadai"

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                          • spadnos
                            MURCer
                            • Jun 2002
                            • 859

                            #28
                            It takes a thread like this to tell me how many fonts I'm missing.

                            - Steve

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                            • SpiralDragon
                              Super MURCer
                              • May 2002
                              • 3548

                              #29
                              there is probably only one other person here who can translate this tranliteration of arabic

                              shoo ya ashta.... .lol.... elie.... you want to have a go at this.....
                              "They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"

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                              • schmosef
                                Super MURCer
                                • Dec 2002
                                • 5813

                                #30
                                I know one. Natalie Portman taught it to me: kus umak!
                                P.S. You've been Spanked!

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