Agreed. Only a high school pupil could've been that caring. Or perhaps an aged woman without children as well

It's cos' of the #3.

I wot?:(

That O looks like a sphincter.

Students & pupils are different creatures.
I'll say what was behind my words, no offense towards anyone. Dario has really done a nice job.
When one is going somewhere, where he hasn't been before, and is "full of that feeling", aka "feeling of doing something that matters"- his care towards the subject is raising.

e.g. most likely I wouldn't bother
& yes, probably that means that something inside me tells me it's child's play.. But it's still is very very nice.

append:

+1

I was surprised there weren't more gibberish coming out of the translations, but I guess people were more careful at what was said and what they were saying than compared to a simple game of telephone. Good job everyone! It was enjoyable to watch from the sidelines as well.

Thought I just looked at it today, I can't see were I was wrong except for the time translation. (English used the past, and I used the present).

Evert, mind to give more explanations ?

FMC: I would have loved to tease you while eating an ice cream ^^

Heh, i don't see why!

I stand corrected!
Interesting, in that case the post-French translation would always be ambiguous and would need some interpretation based on context (since and experience can't be "wrong" that might have been a way, but once "experience" slipped into the English it stayed there since it was part of the sentence at that point).

Well, I guess I suck at translating. I tried interpreting the meanings too much and I guess the originals sentences were nothing at all like I imagine. The experiment/experience thing was one of those moments. At the moment it never occurred to me that an experiment could be both fun and have negative results because i'm stuck in a lab I thought the sentence was just "telephoned" and i tried guessing the original. Maybe i should have trusted you guys more

edit: the other thing i screwed up was «à m'amener à en porter» which is a turn of phrase that i never heard before. I for some reason imagined that meant "to bring along to wear".

Evert: great how a wrong quote can finally end to be something ever stronger in term of brain storming than the right answer itself. smootch ! :-)

These futur translators will use something like a neural network. Alice programs and others are perhaps a key to the better translator.

I would like to develop on the subject but I admit that I am not brain stuffed enough to be clear in my explanations.

Anyway if:
-it has a dynamic base of a bunch of dictionaries
-it has a translating oriented neural network based on a huge learning using a huge human feeding. Let's say it'll use a thousand translators for from each available language, each talking a different second language for mixing 'meaning' results.
-we have a million programmers and a thousand researchers in various high sci domains

It can be done !

Well, I also have thought to a system like seti@home which ask for a translation a day from each subscribers to feed the database.

Erm. Well, that's what I think the future will be.

PS: I perhaps was somewhat under piccology while writing that post, but neural networks are fascinating, ever more now we have class 1 computers at home.

Edit: plus I am now imagining that one day some could read that thread, like: "Hey, that's a fscking fascinating thread, see how it has nicely started, let's do it"
And make money with it ... piccolo, out of my minds !