TS:Its funny you mention this, cause I had just
thought aloud something along those lines on meta:
Linguistic democracy...
LDan: "As Brion said, maybe we can speak Esperanto for
our official interlanguage (for interlingual issues
only)...Esperanto grammar is very simple and it is a
good interlanguage....One can learn Esperanto very
quickly."
SV:"It might be easier to just learn Chinese.
Esperanto —though many here seem to have a serious
infatuation with it, is not a very good international
language... Using Esperanto for a non-Esperanto
project is like voting for a w:Green party candidate
who everybody respects, but only gets 2% in the
polls."
--- "Thomas R. Koll" <tomk32(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Your German sucks.
Well this was rather rude and
maybe stupid.
I hate translation machines cuz they will NEVER be
as good as a human
translator. If there's no machine for Esperanto,
than that should be
seen as an advantage, cuz we're save from such bad
translations.
Mach trans isnt supposed to be as good as people are.
It cant by definition ever be -- because machines are
machines, and people are not... But it's a tool to
throw stuff out there in more or less like the way the
language should look. There's noone here who reads
French or German who cant figure out pretty easily
what machine translated German/French paragraphs are.
There is usually a term or two which it totally flubs.
( like the word flubs!)
~S~
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