SETI public: How Universal Translators Will Work

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From: Mike M. (m9_at_interlog.com)
Date: Fri Jan 28 2005 - 08:35:31 PST

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    Here are a few links related to this subject. Translation presumably would
    be a major issue in contacting E.T.: our 850+ languages and their 850 (or
    however many) languages would be a problem, for example. Having an official
    world auxiliary language would be helpful. The United Nations has six
    "official languages": English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian.
    English, to a certain extent, has evolved into a de facto world
    auxiliary/second language. Creating materials needed to teach English, or
    other languages, to E.T. would be an interesting challenge, but I don't
    know what, if any, progress has been made in that area, or what the
    unsolved problems may be(?).

    Howstuffworks: How Universal Translators Will Work
    http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/universal-translator.htm/printable

    Online translation
    http://www.omniglot.com/links/translation.htm

    Some Internet resources relating to constructed languages
    http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/%7Ejrk/conlang.html

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