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Translation telephony
Remember that kids game telephone? You can now play it here with translations, sans people. (Via Wired.) I just had fun plugging in: "I am a funky monkey," which after being translated into Japanese, back to English, Chinese, English again, and then French, churned up: "J'évente le singe essentiel de matin de caractère." Translate that back into English, and the machine comes up with "ventilating essential monkeys" and their morning character. However, we should note that machine translation has improved dramatically over the years, and as Suzanne pointed out earlier, millions of dollars are being pored into researching algorithms that could discover the key to unlock translation. Maybe the day is near when a machine could accurately translate "funky monkey" into a number of languages. (ELHAM)
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