[duxuser] Re: Grievous but funny errors made by Grade II Braille translators
- From: "Lillian Fortuin" <lillianf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "martin-doug@xxxxxxx" <martin-doug@xxxxxxx>, "duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 15:48:04 +0200
Hello - I had a good giggle at the examples you & someone else gave re the
errors...Then I saw the responses from the technical team who normally assists
us and thought to myself whaaaat???
I don't think that you were criticising at all nor pointing out flaws. It was
merely a comment on how we used to make simple errors not because of the
software but because we are human. It was meant as a light-hearted comment but
people took it as a rap on the knuckles - like seriously..??!!Lillian Fortuin
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Subject: RE: [duxuser] Re: Grievous but funny errors made by Grade II Braille
translators
Hi. I agree Duxbury is great, else I wouldn't be on this list, and I
wouldn't use Duxbury. My point in discussing these translation flaws was
not to advertise or criticize the product, but to collect some really funny
errors that could occur with a bad translator. However, if you don't find
these funny, then, get a life!
Doug Martin
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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"
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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