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L O W L A N D S - L - 09 May 2011 - Volume 02<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Marcus Buck</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</a></span></span></p>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Resources" 2011.05.09 (01) [EN]</span><br><br>As many people here on the list are into languages and translation, I want to introduce to you the website Tatoeba.<br>
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Tatoeba is dedicated to collecting sentences and translating them into
as many languages as possible. As of now it's a corpus of about 850,000
sentences in 91 languages (among them 6,400 in Low Saxon). Everybody can
collaborate and contribute or translate sentences. The project is meant
as a help for language learners by providing example
sentences/translation for any possible topic and area of life. (Tatoeba
is from the Japanese word たとえば meaning "for example".)<br>
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The link is <<a href="http://tatoeba.org/" target="_blank">http://tatoeba.org/</a>>.<br><font color="#888888">
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Marcus Buck</font><div>
<span class="gI"><br>----------<br><br></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></p>
Subject:
Resources<br><br>Thanks, Marcus. It's a pretty interesting idea.<br><br>I watched the video introduction, but I am still now sure what the purpose and the system are.<br><br>If I search for a simple sentence such as "What is your name?" nothing shows up, at least not so far. However, by chance I later found that English sentence with its Scottish Gaelic equivalent, by searching for "what." But random searches bring up sentences like "Space travel will become commonplace some time in the future" and "Despite being no big deal its unnecessarily pompous."<br>
<br>A language has a finite number of words and idiomatic expressions. The number of possible sentences, on the other hand, is infinite. So why index sentences other than as examples under head words?<br><br>And why is selecting and copying any given sentence not an option?<br>
<br>I may be missing the point here, and I am sorry if I misrepresent anything. But this exercise reminds me of what I watched Japanese people do in trying to learn foreign languages: collect and memorize random sentences while hardly improving their speaking and reading skills.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br><br></div>
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