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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 1 of 7 25 February 2011 at 4:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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Attached a link to a recent Huff post about the possible future of the "Chinese"
language, just for fun. Also, some comments about the ongoing use of machine translation (always a fun hot button topic around here). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/an-xiao-mina/-three-guesses-at -a-globe_b_827608.html Edited by Spanky on 25 February 2011 at 4:48am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| CaucusWolf Senior Member United States Joined 5273 days ago 191 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written), Japanese | Message 2 of 7 25 February 2011 at 6:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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I honestly don't see Chinese becoming the number one language in " The near future." It may eventually surpass English, but it won't be anytime soon. I also fail to see translation technology improving so much that a real translator would be made irrelevant in the near future. Edited by CaucusWolf on 25 February 2011 at 6:15am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marc Frisch Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6666 days ago 1001 posts - 1169 votes Speaks: German*, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Persian, Tamil | Message 3 of 7 26 February 2011 at 2:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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It's hard to imagine being in bed with someone and have your smartphone translate what he/she whispers in your ear.
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| kmart Senior Member Australia Joined 6125 days ago 194 posts - 400 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 7 26 February 2011 at 6:21am | IP Logged | |||||
Yep, even if they get the artificial translation thing perfect, I'll always have more respect/attraction toward the person who made the effort to learn my language. Plus there's something sexy about accents and grammar errors (from a non-native speaker, that is). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 5 of 7 26 February 2011 at 10:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6551 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 6 of 7 26 February 2011 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
You are old-fashioned. Just bring the translator to bed too. Problem solved. Next? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 7 of 7 26 February 2011 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Not that I disagree with the comments above, but surely even for this community of
people committed to learning other languages, some of the technology linked in the internet story is pretty darn cool: Pleco - a Mandarin character OCR translator? Wild. http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/16/pleco-2-2-chinese-diction ary-translates-text-in- real-time-using/ Or the voice translate Android app or related tech inititives: http://techland.time.com/2011/01/13/google-translate-voice-a pp-in-goes-english-out- comes-spanish/ http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/02/pentagon-goes-for-a- universal-translator- again/ I am keen myself on learning languages, and would love to be able to communicate with someone who speaks another language by dint of my own learning efforts instead of relying on some magic box, but even the best of our super learners will still not know thousands and thousands of Earth's current languages, so perhaps there will be some non-ear-whisper-related use for some of this improving technology in the future. PS. Hail Skynet (just in case it is monitoring emails yet). PPS. Sorry for not providing links (my link function does not appear to be working properly). Edited by Spanky on 26 February 2011 at 5:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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