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What about a common "intermediary" language? Instead of writing n^2 translation algorithms, you'd only need 2n: one to translate into the intermediary, and one
by nemo1618 14y ago
What about a common "intermediary" language? Instead of writing n^2 translation algorithms, you'd only need 2n: one to translate into the intermediary, and one to translate out. Such a language would have to be incredibly flexible though; my vote is for lojban ;). Done correctly, such a system could also teach the intermediary language to the speaker during translation. Eventually people would start to forgo the translation process and simply speak the common tongue.
- robryan 14y agoWhich would already be English, I assume google translate works a lot better from and to English than other language combinations.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoAndroid may have more Chinese speakers than English speakers here pretty quickly.
- robryan 14y agoI am fairly ignorant on languages. Does Chinese keep up with the fast pace of innovation these days by creating new words for new inventions from the English speaking world? One of the reasons I think English does make a good exchange language is because it generally has a word for anything that comes along. Also it is the easiest to deal with in terms of building software and existing natural language processing research.