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Member #5,337

December 2004

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I'm the juggernaut, bitch!
I am a dog attack!

Scorpions are predatory arthropod animals of the order Scorpiones within the class Arachnida
Scorpio man, arthropod and hunger

Wild killer whales are not considered a threat to humans, although there have been cases of captive killer whales killing or injuring their handlers at marine theme parks
This is a killer of wild animals in danger of humanity, but the orca in captivity as a marine park, is killed or injured

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Jakub Wasilewski

Member #3,653

June 2003

What would really be interesting to see is performing the exact same thing (translating a sentence back and forth X times) with real, human translators to see whether they fare significantly better than computers at this or not.

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Neil Black

Member #7,867

October 2006

Jakub Wasilewski said:

I fully support this study, so long as I don't have to contribute to it in any way beyond expressing my support for it.

Dario ff

Member #10,065

August 2008

Heh, we're a pretty international community. We could play a game like that, but I wouldn't know how to organize it.

I mean, we'd need 2 different people that speak the same language, so one single person doesn't make "fake" translations from English to X Language and back. They'd be biased to turning it to the original phrase. (As long as the original phrase remains a secret to all other participants, to keep the suspense)

I approve Jakub's idea. Would anybody like to participate?

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LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

Dario ff said:

Would anybody like to participate?

I would, but I only speak one language.

Neil Black

Member #7,867

October 2006

Does the bad translator site use a specific sequence of languages? If so, we'd need to recreate that.

Evert

Member #794

November 2000

Dario ff said:

Would anybody like to participate?

Sure.
Apart from Dutch and English, I shouldn't have too much trouble translating a sentence from German or French.

LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

Actually, if the phrase is something very simple, and involves food and/or beverages, I can probably translate it from French.

weapon_S

Member #7,859

October 2006

Ooh, I'd like to participate.
Dutch, English, Japanese.^[1]
I'd suggest first tallying the translators and then writing down a roster.
It would be ideal if a translator only showed up once in the roster, but I think we would get a very short chain then.

Neil Black said:

Does the bad translator site use a specific sequence of languages? If so, we'd need to recreate that.

OK, it starts out with Afrikaans

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LennyLen

Member #5,313

December 2004

weapon_S said:

OK, it starts out with Afrikaans

Could you or our other Dutch posters translate from Afrikaans at least?

weapon_S

Member #7,859

October 2006

Yes, but then subtleties will be lost and certain words are bound to be mistranslated.
Oh wait...

Evert

Member #794

November 2000

LennyLen said:

Could you or our other Dutch posters translate from Afrikaans at least?

Yes.

Bob Keane

Member #7,342

June 2006

Neil Black said:

I fully support this study, so long as I don't have to contribute to it in any way beyond expressing my support for it.

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Dario ff

Member #10,065

August 2008

The order of the languages would be alphabetic.

Well, this is what I have in mind:
1) List up all participants, their languages of choice, etc.
2) Count and order the languages, and assign them to each person.
3) It'd all be a PM(or email) chain. I would send to each of you who you're expected to pass the phrase to, and their task.
4) Send the original phrase to the first translator, and the chain would start.
5) When the chain comes back to me, I'll post the final result.

Maybe I should start a new thread to organize things better.

I don't know how we could get to an agreement for saying which phrase to translate. Should it be a full paragraph? A single phrase?

An example. Of course everyone is assumed to know English .
Mr. A - Dutch
Mr. B - Dutch
Ms. C - French
Ms. D - French

A receives the phrase. He translates it to Dutch, and he sends it to B.
B translates the phrase back to English, and sends it to C.
C translates to French. He sends it to D.
D translates it back to English. He sends it to me, and I post the final result.

Any suggestions?

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