And the guy behind the counter says, “What’ll it be? And the Dalai Lama says, “Make me one with everything.” Funny, right? Buddist humor, gotta love it. But wait, there’s more. So this guy, on national TV (Australia’s a nation, right?), this newscaster, he has the real Dalai Lama on his show, and he tells […]
Continue ReadingCard-holding Commentariat Member Scott Vaughan was sceptical about the timelessness of Amondawa in a recent post. He compared it to the work of Benjamin Lee Whorf (no relation to the Worf on Star Trek) on the Hopi notion of time, or lack thereof. No surprise that Whorf couldn’t find what he wasn’t looking for. “After long […]
Continue ReadingThe end of Google Translate as we know it? Not quite, but Google’s death knell for their Translate API has left the language development community buzzing like a bee’s nest fresh out of pollen. Keep in mind that that API is just a door to let developers easily integrate translation features into their own programs. The […]
Continue ReadingThese damned kids and all their boop-de-boop beatbox foolishness. It’s an outrage the way they are misusing a serious machine translation tool like Google for their antics instead of for serious, possibly lifesaving translation. As reported early on by Translation Guy, these so-called “hep cats” have been laying down musical rifts by typing in nonsense […]
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