They never change, do they?
p.24 of a badly printed Economist Technology Guide (in this week's magazine), in an article on the prospects for highly accurate machine-based language translation, says:Provided there is some common frame reference in the subject matter, there is no reason why translating an alien language should not eventually be possible, says Dr Waibel...."As a joke, one of the students built a Klingon translator", he says, referring to the fictional alien language in "Star Trek".
Try to control yourself laughing at the back. Who would have thought it? What twisted genius mind could come up with something like that. Klingon. That's so funny. How wacky.
I'm off to play 3-d chess.
posted by Matthew @ 6/10/2006 03:56:00 PM
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