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Re: ET (1): On language in ET: (4.00 / 2)

I think my reply to PerClupi - just below, and written at the same time as yours, says more or less the same thing. Even if this project is not 100% successful first time around - it is an effort which should be made, and an effort the EU should support. In fact its a hugely ambitious effort, and even a few stepa in the direction of supporting cross linguistic dialogue and blogging would be a hugely powerful tool towards supporting the creation of an EU Demos or active citizenry.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 05:58:56 AM EST
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Re: ET (1): On language in ET: (none / 0)

Well, my comment to PerClupi is along the same line. (see below)

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by Melanchthon on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 06:05:07 AM EST
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Re: ET (1): On language in ET: (4.00 / 4)

...Although I also think the idea needs to fit into a bigger picture. Otherwise it will become a technical project for the sake of it, rather than something that's really going to have a social impact.

My take on it would be to keep it as simple as possible - multiple sites, a single server, a single database, simple auto translation, some manual tagging and editing.

I don't think a fully automated site is possible for now, and we shouldn't promise that to anyone.

Functionally I think the different language versions should be independent with some cross-posting. The plan wouldn't be to have all of the content duplicated across all the sites.

Position papers can probably stay in English, although French and German would be useful.

If you tag the auto-translation with a Beta label, no one will expect great things of it, which would help to minimise disappointment.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue May 13th, 2008 at 06:18:45 AM EST
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