Esperanto
I learned today that Hunter speaks Esperanto and is (was?) a firm believer in the language. It came up as I was looking at
All Free Dictionaries project : More than 90 free dictionaries. Impressive multilingual translation. Also, ironically bad English (or perhaps grammar learned from only reading dictionaries):
It is not easy to explain this concept so we hope this example will help everyone understand the tremendous power of this concept. There will be always the backbone description which binds English word to only one meaning in Wordnet. English words and Wordnet descriptions are now used as backbone descriptions which will be translated into all languages. This concept will lead contributors to translate English words into other language. More common words are translated before less frequent words. First working version of this concept will have for example only 5000 most common English words. Later the list of backbone descriptions will grow. The table will be filled with triplets (for example corresponding english-german-french translations) from all existing free dictionaries. This will make it even easier to fill the table with translations.
That reminds me, I didn't mention to you GSD guys that Silvia Fuster (from the GSD) is engaged to the guy who sits next to me here at Rockwell. Small, small, small world. She just opened her
show last weekend, "Siamese Connections" (a typological study of standpipes).
* Ray, 12/09/2004 02:47:40 PM
