[duxuser] Re: Grievous but funny errors made by Grade II Braille translators
- From: "Riessen, Kathleen (SA School for Vision Impaired)" <Kathleen.Riessen440@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "<duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:16:11 +0000
We have all seen these sort of examples. It is one of the strengths of DBT that
I now find very few of these anymore and usually with obscure expressions.
I have found that when discrepancies are reported, you will find these
corrected in the next update, which is a very good reason for keeping your DBT
up to date.
Given the complexities of some of the rules of translation DBT does an amazing
job.
On 28/05/2014, at 6:41 PM, "Sheila Armstrong"
<sheilaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:sheilaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Yes, dis-was-her 40h}] dishwasher! Cheers. Sheila(from Torch)
On 27/05/2014 22:35, Doug Martin wrote:
Hi. This might not be appropriate for this list but ....
Some early notetakers used their own Grade II Braille translators. In fact,
as an exercise in learning a parsing computer language called lex, I wrote a
crude version. These translators often made mistakes, such as using the
dot-5-o contraction for "one" in the word pioneer.
Some of us were talking about the worst, and funniest mistakes a parsing
translator could make. The second best we came up with was the use of
dot-5-n "name" in the word Vietnamese. However, by far the best one was the
use of dot-5-m "mother" in the word chemotherapy che-mother-apy!
Does anyone have similar examples?
Doug Martin
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