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drpravia drpravia March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 9:12:00 PM UTC link Permalink

hola, es la primera vez que entro, quiero contribuir en algo, me pueden guiar en que puedo ser util.

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letras_de_aire letras_de_aire March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 11:39:07 PM UTC link Permalink

Hola, drpravia:

Recibe una cordial bienvenida, espero que disfrutes utilizando esta página.

¿Te importa si le hago unas pequeñas correcciones a tu frase? Puesto que esto es una página que pretende ayudar a los que intentan aprender idiomas, es muy importante esforzarse por evitar errores (aunque todos somos humanos y nos equivocamos de vez en cuando, especialmente en idiomas que no son el propio), para enseñar algo correcto y no incorrecto.
Sé que esto es sólo el muro, no una frase traducida, pero así vas practicando el escribir bien.

Te incluyo la explicación para que veas el motivo del error.

*===
hola, es la primera vez que entro, quiero contribuir en algo, me pueden guiar en que puedo ser util.
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>===
Hola:
Es la primera vez que entro, quiero contribuir en algo, ¿me pueden guiar en qué puedo ser útil?
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*h >H (siempre se empieza con mayúsculas)
* > ¿ ? (porque es una pregunta)
*que > qué (porque cuando QUE es pregunta, lleva tilde)
*util > útil (porque es una palabra llana y no acaba ni en -N ni en vocal, si no llevara tilde, se leería u-TIL en vez de Ú-til)

papillon papillon March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 4:53:44 PM UTC link Permalink

Selam, Fransızca bilen bir Türk arıyorum :))

Salut,Y at-il un Turc parlant français?

ie0008 ie0008 March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 10:29:14 AM UTC link Permalink

This site is great.
I only speak Chinese and English, but I would try my best to help.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 1:01:20 PM UTC link Permalink

Welcome !

GenbuNoMiko17 GenbuNoMiko17 March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 12:10:47 AM UTC link Permalink

This seems like an amazing idea, and an amazing website! Thank you for having examples using Finnish words, it's so hard to find that. I'm looking forward to being a part of this site. Kiitos! :)

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fanty fanty March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 7:32:29 AM UTC link Permalink

Yeah, I also found this website while looking for Finnish example sentences, and it has been a great help!

sacredceltic sacredceltic March 27, 2012 March 27, 2012 at 1:00:49 PM UTC link Permalink

Welcome !

Zifre Zifre March 25, 2012 March 25, 2012 at 4:09:29 PM UTC link Permalink

When a new user adds tons of sentences with the same repeated errors (punctuation, capitalization, etc.), would it be okay for corpus maintainers to leave comments on the first few and then just correct the rest immediately?

In my opinion, having to wait two weeks is really harming the quality of the corpus because the @change list just gets longer and longer. Many users show up, add a bunch of incorrect sentences, and then never come back to fix them. Then we waste time commenting on and tagging each one, and the sentences still never get fixed.

gleki gleki March 25, 2012 March 25, 2012 at 11:23:33 AM UTC link Permalink

Why do you have Toki Pona but not Lingwa de Planeta ?
Toki Pona doesn't have ISO-code.

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sysko sysko March 25, 2012 March 25, 2012 at 11:43:14 AM UTC link Permalink

that was an early "mistake", at that time we didn't stated about this "must have an iso code", so we keeped it.

Nowadays we don't plan to add new languages like this for a simple reason, is that if we do so, then we will need to define ourselves what is a language, and a lot of people will add their own conlangs even if unfinished/uncomplete, very close to an other one.

And anyway if a conlang starts to be widely used or complete enough, it will have an iso-code one day or an other.

tatusp2011 tatusp2011 March 24, 2012 March 24, 2012 at 7:44:19 PM UTC link Permalink

I am new here, and have a few questions.

I just translated my first sentence from Portuguese to English. I am a beginner in Portuguese. So my question is what if my translation is not accurate or can be improved? On my profile, it shows the sentence (the translation in English) to be owned by me. How should I let others correct it? Or should I just look at the comments that others might make, and then edit it myself?

I am originally from India, and I noticed that Indian languages have very little presence here. I will be happy to translate some sentences to my native language (Marathi, iso 639-3 code: mar). Should I get Marathi approved by the administrators first?

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sacredceltic sacredceltic March 24, 2012 March 24, 2012 at 9:25:35 PM UTC link Permalink

if your translation is inaccurate, sooner or later, (rather sooner because we've got sharp-eyed native portugese contributors here), you will stand corrected. You will then receive a comment through e-mail, provided that you correctly indicated your address...

You own the sentences/translations you created. You are meant to correct them yourself on request, unless you debate the corrections, in which case you'd better hold solid ground...
If you don't react within 2 weeks, a "corpus maintainer" will review the modification request and apply it without your consent...

If you want Marathi to be added to Tatoeba, please follow the instructions here http://tatoeba.org/epo/faq#new-language
Adding a new language is a long process, so please be patient, but meanwhile, you can still create as many sentences in that language as you want.

Welcome to Tatoeba and I'm delighted that new languages from India are to be added to Tatoeba!

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo March 24, 2012 March 24, 2012 at 11:16:50 PM UTC link Permalink

Bem-vindo a Tatoeba, amigo!

Scott Scott March 17, 2012 March 17, 2012 at 10:11:56 PM UTC link Permalink

I received a spam message by aniotau.

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Scott Scott March 22, 2012 March 22, 2012 at 2:11:37 PM UTC link Permalink

More spam by user modesterbaby

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hayastan hayastan March 22, 2012 March 22, 2012 at 7:18:54 PM UTC link Permalink

+1

ludoviko ludoviko March 24, 2012 March 24, 2012 at 5:49:44 AM UTC link Permalink

modesterbaby, ankaŭ mi - ŝajne ne estas modesta bebo :-)

alexmarcelo alexmarcelo March 17, 2012 March 17, 2012 at 10:50:17 PM UTC link Permalink

O yes, we are three...

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GrizaLeono GrizaLeono March 22, 2012 March 22, 2012 at 9:39:33 PM UTC link Permalink

+1

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xtofu80 xtofu80 March 23, 2012 March 23, 2012 at 8:40:02 AM UTC link Permalink

Spam by modesterbaby

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sysko sysko March 25, 2012 March 25, 2012 at 6:31:23 PM UTC link Permalink

I've deleted the spam from both users

Shishir Shishir March 17, 2012 March 17, 2012 at 10:49:18 PM UTC link Permalink

me too

agbolo agbolo March 20, 2012 March 20, 2012 at 1:16:16 PM UTC link Permalink

... sed kiel proponi flagon por simboli la lingvon? se vi povus helpi, bonvolu uzi la Togolandan (Togo) flagon

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wallebot wallebot March 21, 2012 March 21, 2012 at 3:51:36 PM UTC link Permalink

In 2 paragraph
http://tatoeba.org/spa/faq#new-language

:)

Keder Keder March 18, 2012 March 18, 2012 at 10:25:20 PM UTC link Permalink

Do i have to wait longer or Kurdish language is banned here?

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sacredceltic sacredceltic March 18, 2012 March 18, 2012 at 10:55:25 PM UTC link Permalink

Kurdish is not banned and the proof is that you could create all the kurdish sentences you wanted to and still can. People can view and search them as well...
Kurdish is not the only language awaiting to be included in the language selection list. Actually, some other languages have been awaiting longer...

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Keder Keder March 19, 2012 March 19, 2012 at 12:51:15 AM UTC link Permalink

Well so in this case i have to wait longer but it is just irrational that adding a language takes this long meanwhile i can find duplicate Arabic among these added language.

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sacredceltic sacredceltic March 19, 2012 March 19, 2012 at 11:36:57 PM UTC link Permalink

Languages were created in the order of requests, starting from the English-Japanese pairs from the Tanaka corpus...
Currently, only one person, sysko, administers Tatoeba and he is not paid for his dedication, since Tatoeba is free. He is a brave young man who's got a job to make a living and has so far managed to make it run in spite of all kinds of troublemakers (hackers, trolls...)
I also wish more languages would be created, but as it is, Tatoeba is already a miracle. There's no other service like it.
Be patient, it's worth it. You will find the proof of that in the pudding.

slomox slomox March 20, 2012 March 20, 2012 at 12:15:06 PM UTC link Permalink

It would be nice, if there was some information about the technical steps that need to be taken to create a new language. That could help to raise some appreciation for the task, or somebody could write a script to automatise some of the steps. Or somebody from the community could adopt the new language creation procedure.