Re: Online Language Identifier

I fed Xerox and Languid.cantbedone the following text from my Tanala archives:
Enya renyarazre siritse!  Se Sieratyi.  praratrashya-siritse?
Kebofutyo-siritse?

Trans: What a bitch! The Firelight.  Essentially exotic?  Utterly exotic?
(Grammar: re- and -re are intensifiers.  If they are both together, and the
word is not an exclamation, it means "the x-est" - it may be attached to both
nouns and advectives; if its noun is coupled with an exclamation words such
as "enya" how/what! it has the meaning of "What an X!".  Siritse is a word
covering a wide area - its most basic sense is "community"; it also means the
essential character of a thing, ergo "nyaraz" woman/female human/speaking
being, "nyaraz-siritse" the essence/character of being female as opposed to
being male - also "the sisterhood", the females it pays not to get on the
wrong side of.)

Xerox - Catalan
Languid - Spanish

So they were working on frequency of syllabic structure?  Ie, which vowels and
which consonants fitted together, and how often?

That's the impression I get.

Wesley Parish

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:33, Dirk Elzinga wrote:
> And the Xerox program thought the same passage was Finnish.
>
> On 9/29/05, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...> wrote:
> > It thought the following Shoshoni passage was Swahili.
> >
> > Use apaise newe kai hanii watippeh, tease. Sikka tekkate, sikka sipa
> > sokopa seakkanti. Usen kia sikka sokoppeha hanninusi, hinna oyoti
> > mapa'an tampaitippe.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > On 9/29/05, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
> > > Tim May skrev:
> > > >  > http://languid.cantbedone.org/
> > > >
> > > > Languid is working again now, so those who found the exercise with
> > > > the Xerox guesser interesting might like to try it out.
> > >
> > > It thinks Quenya is Lithuanian! :-)
> > > Probably on account of the many dipthongs.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > /BP 8^)>
> > > --
> > > Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
> > >
> > >          Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
> > >                                              (Tacitus)
> >
> > --
> > Gmail Warning: Watch the reply-to!
>
> --
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Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui?
You ask, what is the most important thing?
Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.

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