X-Digest-Num: 66 Message-ID: <44114.66.282.959273824@eGroups.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:25:44 -0500 (EST) From: xod Subject: Off Topic: NLP, le to'e melbi glico bo bangu X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 282 Content-Length: 820 Lines: 34 On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Christopher Palmer wrote: > > The point approaches soon when computers will be able to deliver really > > workable real-time language translation in text. > > How true that isn't. Do you doubt the appearance of real-time text language translation, to 95% accuracy, in 50 years? > > Of all languages to learn, English is one of the hardest, > > What are your sources for this? How are measuring difficulty? What are the > language-internal implications of difficulty (on scope of expression, > flexibility of syntax, ...) Who is it so difficult for? So I've been told, repeatedly. I thought it was commonly understood and agreed that English and Chinese are the two most difficult languages for non-natives to achieve fluency in. ----- How's my typing? 1 (800) 243-6624