From xod@xxxx.xxxx Fri Feb 19 14:25:44 1999
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Message-ID: <44114.66.282.959273824@eGroups.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:25:44 -0500 (EST)
From: xod <xod@xxxx.xxxx
Subject: Off Topic: NLP, le to'e melbi glico bo bangu

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.




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