Camino Babelfish

SYates

Camino Fossil AD 1999, now living in Santiago de C

Time of past OR future Camino

First: Camino Francés 1999
...
Last: Santiago - Muxia 2019

Now: http://egeria.house/

• May 19, 2016

• #1

Just came across this


Douglas Adams Babelfish in reality! Sounds great for the Camino! SY

PS Website http://www.waverlylabs.com

 

MichaelB10398

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Suffice it to say I haven't yet stopped walking

• May 19, 2016

• #2

Really exciting development. Here is a link that talks specifically about when this product will be ready for sale. Retail will be under $300, but early bird buyers get a real break at well under $200.

Thanks for pointing this out, SY

 

Tincatinker

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Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

2012

• May 19, 2016

• #3

Please remember, as the sainted Douglas Adams made clear, that the Babel Fish was the single most significant contributor to war and conflict throughout all the known universes (and probably some others as well) as everybody finally found out what everybody else was actually saying about them.

 

SYates

Camino Fossil AD 1999, now living in Santiago de C

Time of past OR future Camino

First: Camino Francés 1999
...
Last: Santiago - Muxia 2019

Now: http://egeria.house/

• May 19, 2016

• #4

That is the draw back, isn't it? One could finally understand what your fellow pilgrims muttered about your choice of gear or way of doing the camino ...

SY

 

C

Castilian

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• May 19, 2016

• #5

Great development! Let's hope it works fine and deals with slang, mispronounciations and other features of daily oral speech. I'm not sure if people will have to get used to hear at the same time a foreign language and its translation to their language or if that will not be a problem. Anyway, this improvement will be very useful (or so it seems) but I would like to keep, even if just from time to time, the joy of trying to understand what someone who speaks an unknown language for me is trying to say me.

 

koilife

Veteran Member

Time of past OR future Camino

CF '13; CF/Salvador/Ingles '16; Portugues '22

• May 20, 2016

• #6

Does it translate Martian and Venusian? If so, I'll buy a pair for my wife and I, and perhaps we'll understand each other for the first time in 25 years . . .

She says "Yes" but means "No." I say "In a moment" but mean "Not in this lifetime." Anything that can translate the male/female idiom is a quantum leap forward in relational harmony.

Or, perhaps @Tincatinker is right. Perhaps it simply strips the dance of the sexes to its most naked truth, before which who can stand?