i202 Fall 2009 School of Information, UC Berkeley

Light-hearted fare to celebrate the it-is-over-ness of our final: (cute cat images optional)
im in da syistam, improovin ur misundastandin ouf sveeloooneyus
Congrats and enjoy!
-joan

 So there was some debate over whether translating back and forth between languages is a fair assessment of a translation system, but I definitely find it entertaining. Translation Party repeatedly translates a phrase between English and Japanese until an equilibrium has been established. For example, "May the force be with you" is eventually transformed into "One of the other five have one or two months and one single-supply one."

Today's lecture on machine translation and language bias reminded me of this chestnut:

What do you call someone who speaks multiple languages?

Multilingual

What do you call someone who speaks two languages?

Bilingual

What do you call someone who speaks one language?

American