sorry, now it's should be ok:)

Yep, you're right, I will do it :)

Ah right... Already known glitch, detected back in June. But I had forgotten about it.

It's still in low priority but I'll try to take care of this before the end of the month.

I agree, though sometimes it is interesting in highly inflected languages to see how the Gender of the subject may change the other words in the sentence. But if you think they are of no use, simply do not add such sentences, and do not translate all of those variants. That's how I do it.

and the problem is the same with different times, distances, counts, numbers, etc...
I think it needs conventions...

It's really cool you're interested in making an Android app! :)

And no, you're not missing anything obvious. We actually started coding an API last year, but this sub-project was temporarily dropped because no one could carry it on, and it wasn't the most urgent thing to take care of.

Any app that currently uses our data actually uses our downloads files.
http://tatoeba.org/eng/download...mple_sentences

Of course we still plan to provide an API, I just don't know when yet... But there has been other people than you asking for it, so it's getting higher and higher priority in our todo list.

I think discussions on the wall should be held in English. Only discussions in the comment section of a particular language might be held in that very language, since a reader who cannot read the comment might also not be interested in the sentence anyway.

pour l'instant la détection de la langue est faite via l'API google (cela pour des raisons historiques, nous attendons une refonte prochaine du site, pour passer sur nos propres algorithmes de détection automatique)
cela ne sollicite donc pas plus le serveur, mais préciser la langue rend l'ajout plus rapide vu qu'il n'y une chose en moins à faire. Après je n'ai jamais pris le temps de comparer les deux, pour voir si le gain de temps coté utilisateur était "observable".
l'option en fait est surtout pour les langues non supportés par l'API de google, ou produisant beaucoup de mauvaise détection (comme le shanghaïen, le latin etc.)

one more thing, we need to strictly define when does two sentences 'match', when is a direct link appropriate, when is an indirect link appropriate, and when an indirect link isn't acceptable.

There's way more linguistic nuances than just idioms and we really can't start being picky about every single one of them...

I don't know how 'official' my position is, but this is what I think.

Now, obviously, we'd like to have idioms included in the example sentences. We'd also like to have those examples translated. No controversy so far, I hope? ;-)

So, the point is that not every idiom will have an equivalent in every language it is translated to. Therefore it is impossible to always translate an idiom with an idiom.

Thus it must be acceptable, in some circumstances, to translate an idiom by a non-idiom phrase. Personally I see no reason why it should not always be allowed - but I prefer idom - idiom translations if they are available and natural.