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Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday April 05, 2002 @03:31PM from the how-long-before-it-does-klingon dept.

moon unit beta writes "New Scientist has this story about a new plan to build a multi-language translation database called the World Wide Lexicon, using a distributed community of volunteers. The designer compares it to a distributed computing project and believes it could make it easier to translate more obscure languages."

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Universal Translator (Score:3, Funny)

by lxmeister ( 570131 ) writes: on Friday April 05, 2002 @03:36PM (#3292234)

The Universal Translator is finally here! But will they ever release it in fish form?

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Let's get started right now (Score:2, Funny)

by PD ( 9577 ) writes: <slashdotlinux@pdrap.org> on Friday April 05, 2002 @03:36PM (#3292235) Homepage Journal

Everyone translate the word "fuck" into your native language.

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Re:Let's get started right now (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 05, 2002 @03:41PM (#3292268)

my jab on this...in my native language its called "embrace and extend"..ofcourse i speak the native language called 'redmondish'

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but will it translate into Klingon? (Score:2, Funny)

by JeanBaptiste ( 537955 ) writes: on Friday April 05, 2002 @03:43PM (#3292292)

More people speak Klingon than Navaho...

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Hi! How are you? (Score:2, Funny)

by spruce ( 454842 ) writes: on Friday April 05, 2002 @03:47PM (#3292325) Journal

I send you this words in order to have your translation

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Re:Let's get started right now (Score:2, Funny)

by Have Blue ( 616 ) writes: on Friday April 05, 2002 @03:58PM (#3292422) Homepage

"Fuck" in my native languge of English is "Fuck".

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Super! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday April 05, 2002 @05:25PM (#3292963)

But will it be more useful than http://www.megablog.com/translate.php [megablog.com]?

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