Is there an online text translator?

starman3000 · **Joined:** Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:52 am **Posts:** 35

I found a number translator (?) here:

http://www.granelda.com/d-calc/d-calc.html

I also downloaded the IPDE which has a number and word translator but I was just wondering if there anything more recent online...

Maratanos · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:59 pm

We don't know enough about the D'ni language to be able to translate texts on the fly.

Rehchoortahn · **Joined:** Sun May 06, 2007 6:03 am **Posts:** 11

Says who?

http://linguists.bahro.com/translation.html

chucker · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 8:49 am

Rehchoortahn wrote:

Says who?

http://linguists.bahro.com/translation.html

Maratanos said "on the fly". The page you're referring to doesn't fulfill that criterion.

I'm sure the DLF will agree with Maratanos's assertion. Translation is hard enough as it is with such little vocabulary; doing it on the fly is near-impossible at this point. The best we can do is create a "translator" that's actually filled with a database of known texts and their translations, but that would hardly be on the fly either.

Tesseract · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:12 pm

We could ask Google to add D'ni to their translation tools. They could at least add a D'ni version of their home page, I mean they already have Klingon.

Anubislg · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:22 pm

ROFL, I can't believe they actually have Klingon.

I havn't been able to come across any translation tools either, other than IPDE.

chucker · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:08 pm

Tesseract wrote:

We could ask Google to add D'ni to their translation tools.

I believe they discontinued that program (soliciting translations of the Google search interface) a short while ago. Then again, this link suggests otherwise.

EthanEver · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:02 am

Rehchoortahn wrote:

Says who?

http://linguists.bahro.com/translation.html

It seems not to be working properly. After the Submit button I get an Error message... /scratchhead

/scratchhead some more...

Herohtar · **Joined:** Wed Nov 08, 2006 5:45 pm **Posts:** 2553

Tesseract wrote:

We could ask Google to add D'ni to their translation tools. They could at least add a D'ni version of their home page, I mean they already have Klingon.

As well as Elmer Fudd, Hacker, Pig Latin and Bork Bork Bork! O.o

Surely we could bug them enough to get them to add D'ni as well. :lol:

The Noble Robot · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:34 am **Posts:** 769

This whole thread got me started on a 2-hour wikipedia expedition to learn about constructed languages, from Klingon (which in my youth I attempted to learn, alas, I didn't have enough geek power) to Esperanto.

Seriously, learning stuff is so much fun!

And I also added some info about D'ni to the article on constructed languages.

LuigiHann · **Joined:** Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:07 pm **Posts:** 837

The Noble Robot wrote:

This whole thread got me started on a 2-hour wikipedia expedition to learn about constructed languages, from Klingon (which in my youth I attempted to learn, alas, I didn't have enough geek power) to Esperanto.

Seriously, learning stuff is so much fun!

And I also added some info about D'ni to the article on constructed languages.

You might enjoy this site: http://www.omniglot.com/

They already have a page on D'ni, as well as every real or fake alphabet that I could think of.

The Noble Robot · **Joined:** Fri Nov 10, 2006 5:34 am **Posts:** 769

Thanks dude, great link!

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