Fwd: Heritage Key Digest - Tandem Google Translate Latin Discit

Thu Sep 30 18:58:35 UTC 2010

This British service has some interesting things, mostly archaeological.  
Today's edition has a fascinating segment in ancient Babylonian/Assyrian. 
How's  that for language restoration! Click on the Akkadian" link to hear the 
language  spoken.
D Martinez

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    *   _Quest Your Way to Find  the Mummies_ 
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    *   _The Sound of Akkadian -  Listen to Ancient Babylonian online_ 
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    *   _One Step Closer to  Understanding Neanderthal Locomotion_ 
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Posted:  30 Sep 2010 05:42 AM PDT 

Google Translate has added Latin to the ever-expanding list of  languages 
the free service offers. In _a post  to the official Google blog_ 
(http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/veni-vidi-verba-verti.html)  titled 'Veni, 
Vidi, Verba  Verti' (which the service translates as 'I came, I saw, I  
translated the words'), Igeniarius Programmandi Jakob  Uszkoreit correctly points 
out that – although it isn't likely to  be used to translate emails (with some 
exceptions, maybe) – the new  service is an excellent tool for scholars all 
over the world as many  ancient and medieval works on philosophy, religion 
and science are  written in Latin, many of those available in Google Books. 
Uszkoreit is convinced the system – still in alpha – will soon  deliver 
accurate translations, as Latin grammar and vocabulary ceased  evolving and 
Google is using the 'thousands' of Latin books already  translated to a 
variety of languages to train the system.  As an  example he quotes Caesar's 'The 
Gallic Wars'.  Yet, when put to the  test regarding Caesar's conquest of 
Pharnaces, Google Translate gets a  bit confused (depending on punctuation): 

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Posted:  30 Sep 2010 03:51 AM PDT 

Exploring is more fun now with the new Heritage Key  Virtual Quest in the 
Treasures region! 
As you land in the _Arrivals  Area_ 
(http://heritage-key.com/site/heritage-key-grid-welcome-area)  after logging into _Heritage Key  Virtual_ 
(http://heritage-key.com/site/king-tut-virtual) , make your way to the teleports 
where you will see several  destinations. Selecting "Treasures" will take you to 
_King Tutankhamun's_ (http://heritage-key.com/king-tut)  _Golden  Shrine_ 
(http://heritage-key.com/egypt/encased-gold-shrines-king-tut) . 

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Posted:  30 Sep 2010 03:51 AM PDT 

 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scruch/4245370037/) Almost 2,000 years after 
its last native  speakers disappeared, the sound of Ancient Babylonian 
makes a comeback  in an online audio archive.  The recordings include excerpts 
from  some of the earliest known works of world literature, dating back to 
the  first years of the second millennium BC. 
Prompted by the enquiries of curious colleagues and friends, Dr.  Martin 
Worthington,  an expert in Babylonian and Assyrian grammar  _from  the 
University of Cambridge_ 
(http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/teaching_and_research/jr_fellows/m_worthington/) , has begun to record readings of  Babylonian poems, myths 
and other texts in the original tongue. In an  effort to present users with 
a variety of voices, the readings –  available online for free at 
_www.speechisfire.com_ (http://www.speechisfire.com/)  – are given  by Dr. 
Worthington's fellow Assyriologists. 

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god Mithras discovered in  France_ 
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Ann 'Vint' Wuyts is looking after the Heritage  Key community and avatar 
health & entertainment. She is slightly  fascinated by everything to do with 
3D technology and what's commonly  defined as 'Web 2.0'. When she grows up, 
Ann - eventually - wants to be  a mummy. Favourite game: Buzzword Bingo /…

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Posted:  29 Sep 2010 10:44 AM PDT 

A new research project from the Université Libre de  Bruxelles (ULB) takes 
us “one step further” as it comes to understanding  Neanderthal locomotion. 
 The Laboratory of Anatomy, Biomechanics  and Organogenesis' (LABO for 
short) project created a 3D virtual  reconstruction of a pair of Neanderthal 
lower limbs.

The  skeleton shows the Neanderthals had the same moves as we do – and  
between 5% and 20% more leverage than us.   
Homonids (that includes all forms of the human lineage, be it extinct  or 
living) started bipedal locomotion (moving by means of your two rear  limbs 
or, in our case, legs) some 6 million years ago.  When you  compare our 
'modern man' gait to that of our fellow hominids, man takes  giant steps.  But 
what about the Neanderthals? To which degree is  their locomotion comparable 
to ours? 

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Mithras discovered in  France_ 
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Ann 'Vint' Wuyts is looking after the Heritage  Key community and avatar 
health & entertainment. She is slightly  fascinated by everything to do with 
3D technology and what's commonly  defined as 'Web 2.0'. When she grows up, 
Ann - eventually - wants to be  a mummy. Favourite game: Buzzword Bingo /…

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