Two linking feature requests:

1) Why not let normal users link their own sentences to each other? This should be really easy to change in the coding, right?

2) Could we consider an interlink feature for all aspiring polyglots? i.e.: You check off all the sentences in a family that you would like to link, instead of just linking two, and then they and all of their inter-combinations get linked. I say this because the number of linkings that a person who adds n translations at a time has to do is n-choose-2, which is only, say, 6, if you add four translations together, but 45 if you're super-multilingual and add, say, ten.

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- Send me a private message (and only a private message) with the title "[vote] Banners XXX" where XXX indicates your favorite set of banners. For instance "[vote] Banners 1" if you vote for the 1st set.
- No need to write anything particular in the body. You should know however that you cannot send an empty message. If you don't know what to write, you can just copy-paste a random sentence from Tatoeba.
- Only one vote per person.
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I have a suggestion regarding fonts and scripts without Unicode encoding.

See http://tatoeba.org/spa/sentences/show/395028

Most people will probably see a random jumble of characters, instead of Tengwar.

In the HTML that Tatoeba generates, the <span> that contains a sentence should have the 'lang' property set to the correct value. This is useful for other reasons too, so that the browser can correctly identify the sentence even if the rest of the page is in the language of the interface.

Then, in Tatoeba's CSS, there could be something like this:

:lang(quenya) {font-family: Tengwar;}

And a corresponding @font-face declaration that would link to Tengwar fonts in the WOFF and TTF formats.

Any other scripts that need special fonts could be added in a similar way just by adding a few lines to the CSS.

Saluton!. Kie mi trovas ligilon al la komentoj, kiujn aliaj faris pri miaj frazoj? Mi trovas nur miajn proprajn komentojn, kiuj ne tre interesas min.

Hello! On my profile page there is a link to my comments. But I want to see the comments other users have made on my sentences. Where is that?

Suggestions:

1) Allow information on regional variations. Brazilian portuguese has significant variations from Portugal portuguese. The same with most languages;

2)Include information on language register. For example: formal, coloquial, slang; etc.

Thanks,

Olá amigos lusófonos,

Eu queria saber o que vocês acham sobre a utilização da palavra "sentenças" na interface do Tatoeba. Há tempos eu penso que poderia ser melhor usar "frases".

Hi,
I would just like to recommend www.wordreference.com as a great translation tool (for English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian). I swear by it for my English-French and French-English translations. It has definitions from multiple dictionaries, verb conjugation tables, and (most importantly) discussion forums for finding help from native speakers.
Currently clicking the random button for French-English translations here is becoming a bit addictive... Tatoeba is a great idea!

右上のメニューで日本語表示を選択すると、不可解な日本語？が、
表示されるのですが、修正して戴く事はできないでしょうか。

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Sentences in:
「文章中：」(現在の表示)
「例文の言語:」(翻訳案)

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Show translations in:
「地図を翻訳で：」(現在の表示)
「翻訳された言語：」(翻訳案)

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NOTE: It will show both direct and indirect translations.
「注：これは、直接的および間接的な翻訳が表示されます。」(現在の表示)
「注：直接的な翻訳と間接的な翻訳が両方とも表示されます。」

Not directly translated into:
「は直接に翻訳：」(現在の表示)
「間接的に翻訳された言語：」(翻訳案)

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NOTE: Sentences that have an indirect translation will show up.
「注：間接的な翻訳が表示されますが文。」(現在の表示)
「注：間接的に翻訳されたが例文が表示されます。」(翻訳案)

Only sentences with audio:
「オーディオのみ文章：」(現在表示)
「音声付き文章のみ表示：」(翻訳案)

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NOTE: Only a few languages have audio at the moment.
「注：のみ、いくつかの言語では、現時点では音声があります。」(現在の表示)
「注：現時点ではいくつかの言語のみに音声があります。」(翻訳案)

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Hi
I want to get Japanese-English sentence example(s) for each Japanese word in a wordlist (1000's of entries) for an iphone app. I want too limit them to ones that only contain kanji of the same level or lower than the target kanji, exported to excel where I'd then review and edit them.
Any ideas on the best way to go about this? (I'm not a programmer!)
Thanks,
Oliver