Mystery Language

[Josh Wilson]

Some other amusing results:

"My name is Bob" - Middle Frisian
"Do you speak English? Yes, I speak English." - Unknown Language

Also, almost any entry involving obscenity is "guessed" as being Scots!! 

I would be interested to know what sort of criteria this program is using.  


-----Original Message-----
From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
[mailto:SEELANGS at listserv.cuny.edu] On Behalf Of Alina Israeli
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:50 PM
To: SEELANGS at listserv.cuny.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Mystery Language

>There is one minor problem with this page and the results. I went to
>the page and pasted in the English 'Over my dead body' just for fun.
>The result was 'Manx'. So it seems that Language Guesser doesn't
>guess very well.

It needs some work, obviously. Here are my tries and results:

ja govorju - Serbian

ia govoriu - Croatian

over my dead body - Manx

over my - English

dead body - Welsh

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