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There are at least two other more serious problems for endangered languages, more acute than just lack of mother-tongue transmission. There are languages whose last fluent speakers are already gone or are about to go. At a meeting at Glorieta near Santa Fe, New Mexico, a few months ago, we had actually the last living speaker of one of the languages come. It was a very sad experience for everyone, not just for that woman. And perhaps the saddest thing is that she cannot even talk to her sister anymore, who was the next-to-last speaker before she recently died. She can not call up anybody. The only person for her to talk to is a linguist and that is no fun.[1]
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* http://wt.jrc.it/lt/Acquis/ — Multilingual Euro-corpus (Public domain) 20+ languages. |
* http://wt.jrc.it/lt/Acquis/ — Multilingual Euro-corpus (Public domain) 20+ languages. |
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* http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html — corpora |
* http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html — corpora |
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* http://www.hakikatkitabevi.com/ — text available for aligning in many languages (incl. Turkish, Azerbaijani). |
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** http://www.harunyahya.org/ — related to above. |
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==Humour== |
==Humour== |
Revision as of 22:56, 15 August 2007
Translations
- DIM EISIAU → #ZERO #WANT
Scratchpad
- http://mokk.bme.hu/resources/hunalign — GPL text aligner.
- http://www.services.gov.za/en-za/Home.htm — Available in 11 official languages.
- http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/ — German-English dictionary (GPL) ~100,000 lemmata.
- http://wt.jrc.it/lt/Acquis/ — Multilingual Euro-corpus (Public domain) 20+ languages.
- http://corpora.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/download.html — corpora
- http://www.hakikatkitabevi.com/ — text available for aligning in many languages (incl. Turkish, Azerbaijani).
- http://www.harunyahya.org/ — related to above.
Humour
<bogdan> spectie: we want more spectish poetry! <spectie> haha :D <bogdan> spectie: I had not heard any bad non-rhyming non-sensical poetry in a long time and I miss it! <spectie> s/bad/good <spectie> bogdan2005, ok <spectie> here's a variation on a popular theme: <spectie> its called "Machine translation" <spectie> SILENCE PLEASE <spectie> ... <spectie> machine translation <spectie> sometimes it works <spectie> sometimes it doesn't <spectie> ... <zocky> machine translation / sometimes it works / manchmal he don't