Esperanto isn't just something Microsoft uses to tease Google for
abandoning video codecs, it's a legitimate, manufactured language. Created in the late 1800's by Dr. Ludwig L. Zamenhof, Esperanto was designed to be an easy to learn language that would help folks from all over the world understand each other. Seeing as how
Google Translate shares similar goals, the Mountain View firm felt Zamenhof's homemade tongue would be the perfect fit for its machine translation service. Despite a rather small sample size of pre-existing translated material to feed the Google language machine, the firm says Google Translate handled Esperanto surprisingly well -- partially crediting the language's learner friendly construction for the service's success. Sure, it may not be the most
useful addition Google Translate's ever seen, but hey, it gets us one step closer to watching cult classics like
Incubus without the subtitles. What's that, you haven't heard of
William Shatner's pre-
Star Trek, all Esperanto romp? Crack open your machine translator and head past the break, then.
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Good to see that Google Translate has finally added Esperanto:)
ReplyDeleteThe new online course http://www.lernu.net has 125 000 hits per day and Esperanto Wikipedia enjoys 400 000 hits per day. That can't be bad :)