[Foundation-l] New projects opened

[Bod Notbod]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Milos Rancic<millosh at 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.