Re: [lojban] Doulingo

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:24:55PM +0100, Krzysztof Sobolewski
wrote:
> For all you tool-loving nerds :)
> 
> I'm not sure if this appeared here already, but I've just watched
> a talk by one of the inventors of CAPTCHAs[1] who's now involved
> in this thing called Duolingo: http://duolingo.com/ I wonder if
> this could be used to quickly and easily expand the corpus of
> available texts in lojban :) 

No.  The whole point of duolingo is that you translate texts *from*
the language you're trying to learn; unless you know of some native
Lojbanists trying to learn English or something, it's not of any
relevance to us at all.

> Well, it does require hudreds of thousands of people doing it, so
> maybe at least you'll appreciate it as tool-loving nerds ;)

Yeah, it's definitely a neat concept.

-Robin

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