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Google tries to build tower of Babel
GOOGLE SAID it has launched a message translation service aimed, it said, at enabling travellers to keep holiday flings going after they get home.
Google's Message Translation, is an "experimental feature that enables you - and your fling - to conduct entire conversations in multiple languages," it reckons.
We'd like to point out a couple of things. First up, machine translation is still next to useless, and when you're burbling on about stars and moonlight your translated missive could quite easily be moaning about the quality of the snogging - or more.
Secondly, who has a holiday fling with someone they can't talk to and then decides they'd like to be able chat when they get home?
You'd do just as well to get the dictionary out to be able to say, "thanks for the bunk-up," in any language µ
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I think it's a great application for stupid English people (I’m English but not stupid) who go abroad to bunk up and or get a wife. Case and point, a friend of a friend, went to Thailand several times meeting the same lady, married her and brought her back to England. Currently last i heard neither of them could speak the other's language.
Currently the guy annoys everyone he meets as he now speaks pigeon English as his first language.
...I guess you're not really a man of the world at all from your comment:
"Secondly, who has a holiday fling with someone they can't talk to and then decides they'd like to be able chat when they get home?"
Not to mention the possibilities for romantic international encounters with the close proximity of so many other European countries to Old Blighty, but have you ever heard of an Asian country that used to be known as Siam? It is now affectionately known as the Land of Smiles. That's right,
Thailand. This country has produced more international romantic relationships than probably any
other country in the world. I hear there's more than a few Brits who have found themselves involved with these sexy brown eyed oriental beauties while on holiday over the years. It seems Google's Message Translation service may be quite useful after all. I'm going to give it a try myself.
My advice to you Paul is to quit fondling your mouse and go outside and play. Better yet, dust off your passport and take a holiday abroad. There's a whole world out there waiting for you!
Sawasdee krup khun Paul ;^)
and - My hover craft is full of eels.
Are the first things that popped into my tiny mind when I read this.
Sonkut, you are English (my condolences), but whether or not you're stupid is not for you to proclaim. You may just be slightly less stupid than your cow-orkers, but still lacking the brainpower of a rock.
In any case, you're English, so you shouldn't be going around boasting. Especially in front of Belgians.
to rhyme with Google, should it be called Babble :-)?