On 23 Aug 2009, at 09:50, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancicmillosh@gmail.com wrote:
There won't be new lingua franca. ~30 years is now very small amount of time for changing behavior of the global society, while it is very large amount of time for machine translators. (Translation engines between similar languages are very very good now.)
The Google Wave demo shows real time translation as things are typed. I'm sure you'll inevitably end up with some of the very strange sentence constructions you get whenever you do an online translation but it's still quite a remarkable feat.
I was at a demonstration of Google Wave yesterday, and someone asked for a demo of the live translation robot. They weren't able to demo it; apparently it's been decommissioned by Google.
Mike