Received: from mail-lb0-f189.google.com ([209.85.217.189]:37235) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1STRBU-00048i-Mn; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:43 -0700 Received: by lbol5 with SMTP id l5sf2414128lbo.16 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-beenthere:received-spf:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:x-google-group-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:sender :list-subscribe:list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=3Jhkp9SsUN5r5N1Ch2CT+aB3TmaIwsklhw3TzerTf8I=; b=F7P/x11nU/9h23YNvN/QZ4ZCdF81ifPaRvvV4su0MINMM2rrwp/lzdHy/tQ/S+Tahd pc2d4vpLeTIKpFdXMbglcxWQk1bWW3fq/9PcuZnLfrBV/GfI5XhYM9P/VuHEgoG8EgS5 IsQMCgXUsKxNe/ohDdISiUWGaSsQe/J7ZOqz8= Received: by 10.204.152.3 with SMTP id e3mr89047bkw.31.1336886244600; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:24 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: lojban@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.204.154.7 with SMTP id m7ls6602988bkw.5.gmail; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.141.4 with SMTP id k4mr373123bku.6.1336886243635; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.141.4 with SMTP id k4mr373122bku.6.1336886243616; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-lpp01m010-f42.google.com (mail-lpp01m010-f42.google.com [209.85.215.42]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p5si17482443bks.1.2012.05.12.22.17.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of eyeonus@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.42 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.215.42; Received: by lagy4 with SMTP id y4so5962900lag.1 for ; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.108.178 with SMTP id hl18mr3046385lab.11.1336886243191; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.152.22.68 with HTTP; Sat, 12 May 2012 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8573463.77.1336885324334.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbaf5> References: <7321907.260.1336829133552.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynz24> <20120512173520.GJ1837@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> <8573463.77.1336885324334.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbaf5> Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 23:17:23 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [lojban] Etymology of future gismu (if they are to be created) From: Jonathan Jones To: lojban@googlegroups.com X-Original-Sender: eyeonus@gmail.com X-Original-Authentication-Results: gmr-mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of eyeonus@gmail.com designates 209.85.215.42 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=eyeonus@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=@gmail.com Reply-To: lojban@googlegroups.com Precedence: list Mailing-list: list lojban@googlegroups.com; contact lojban+owners@googlegroups.com List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 1004133512417 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: Sender: lojban@googlegroups.com List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=bcaec54c513aa16bf904bfe415a0 X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) X-Spam_score: -0.7 X-Spam_score_int: -6 X-Spam_bar: / --bcaec54c513aa16bf904bfe415a0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM, gleki wrote: > >>It's not? It sure sounds pretty problematic to me. I don't read > Devenagari or Hanzi, for starters. > > It's not. Google Translate, other romanization services and audio samples > like Forvo do their job pretty well so we can always determine what is the > most close lojbanic phoneme to each of the sound in Hindi and Mandarine. > I know from experience that any and all translation programs are horrid at translation. Furthermore, I don't see any need to include more languages into the algorithm. -- mu'o mi'e .aionys. .i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o (Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D ) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lojban" group. To post to this group, send email to lojban@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to lojban+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/lojban?hl=en. --bcaec54c513aa16bf904bfe415a0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:02 PM, gleki <gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com> wrote:
>>It's not? =A0It sure sounds pretty problemati= c to me. =A0I don't read
Devenagari or Hanzi, for starters.

It's not. Google Translate, other romanization services and audio= samples like Forvo do their job pretty well so we can always determine wha= t is the most close lojbanic phoneme to each of the sound in Hindi and Mand= arine.

I know from experience that any and all translation = programs are horrid at translation.

Furthermore, I don't see any= need to include more languages into the algorithm.

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