ni hao monde: connecting communities across cultural and linguistic boundaries
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Slides from my talk at XTech 2008 in Dublin, Ireland on May 5th 2008. This talk mainly dealt with ways in which we can overcome language barriers online. The paper which accompanies this presentation is available on the XTech site at http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/534TRANSCRIPT
ni hao, mondeSimon BatistoniXTech, Dublin, May 2008
hello.
we are hyperconnected
we are hyperconnectedbecoming
we are divided
in the beginning...http://babel.altavista.com/
oh my, that is a tasty salad
http://tashian.com/multibabel/
http://tashian.com/multibabel/
that my OH -, this one is insalata of good pleasure
http://tashian.com/multibabel/
de buen gusto
http://tashian.com/multibabel/
de buen gustotaste
pleasure
surfing
“surfing”
slight misunderstanding
ungrammatical
ungrammatical…in the sense that every ordinary speaker of the casual vernacular has a gut feeling that something is wrong w i t h t h e m , d e s p i t e t h e i r interpretability. Ungrammaticality is simply a consequence of our having a fixed code for interpreting sentences. For some strings a meaning can be guessed, but we lack confidence that the speaker has used the same code in producing the sentence as we used in interpreting it. - Steven Pinker
language processor
flickr groupshttp://flickr.com/groups/
google translate
http://translate.google.com
maps will save us!
http://flickr.com/map/
flickr places
http://flickr.com/places/
raumzeitgeist
gestures
signs
(you’ve done this before)
we are all made of stars
we are all made of stars
we are all made of stars
we are all made of stars
we are all made of stars
it’s not the future yet
bigger problems?
be creative!
http://flickr.com/photos/onegoodbumblebee/1444006381/http://flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/2337942930/http://flickr.com/photos/liebermann/414761467/http://flickr.com/photos/tuinkabouter/497701866/http://flickr.com/photos/monkeyc/200815386/http://flickr.com/photos/kevinsteele/1507196484/http://www.nv.doe.gov/library/photos/photodetails.aspx?ID=1032http://flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/421949167/http://flickr.com/photos/mbiddulph/2250018495/http://flickr.com/photos/goodgovernor/2378984670/http://flickr.com/photos/schneelocke/362731184/http://flickr.com/photos/fortphoto/183873581/http://flickr.com/photos/mr_babyman/102974754/http://flickr.com/photos/ogjoedivola/96463238/http://flickr.com/photos/sathia/404817956/
photos
questions?
http://hitherto.net/talks/