Re: Online Language Identifier

Tim May wrote at 2005-08-30 22:10:19 (+0100)
 > David J. Peterson wrote at 2005-08-30 00:50:14 (-0700)
 >  >
 >  > Anyway, try it out!  It's great fun!  Plus, this might help out the
 >  > "What language is this song/text in?" threads.  I hear for real
 >  > languages it's pretty accurate.
 >  >
 >  > (Oh, a side-note: It has a fixed number of languages [46] it's
 >  > guessing from, and it lists them for you.  This list includes
 >  > Esperanto, but does not include any Austronesian language, I
 >  > think...  [What is Malay?]  That's probably why a language that
 >  > looks like Hawaiian looked so alien to it.)
 >  >
 >
 >
 > If it were working (which unfortunately at present it seems not to be)
 > you might like to try Maciej Cegłowski's language guesser too,
 > although it's supposed to identify stuff it doesn't know as
 > "gibberish", so you're not guaranteed an amusing misidentification.
 >
 > 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.

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