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tinacalysto tinacalysto December 18, 2009 December 18, 2009 at 3:08:46 PM UTC link Permalink

Hey guys, any chance of having Norwegian language added?

Thx and congrats for the great site (which has become my new hobbie)!

P.S.: Portuguese GET!

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TRANG TRANG December 18, 2009 December 18, 2009 at 5:15:36 PM UTC link Permalink

Yes, actually someone else has also requested us to add Norwegian. He actually asked to add both Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.

But for that, we're waiting until we have either :
1) Our own language detection system (because for now we're relying on Google's detection, which is reaching its limit...)
2) Or added a feature that enables people to indicate the language of the sentence (instead of having is systematically auto-detected).

Now you have to know that it is not forbidden to add Norwegian sentences, even if it's not "officially" supported. You will not be able to set the language as Norwegian (yet), but you can do that later, when we actually add Norwegian as a supported language.
Besides, it will actually give us some pressure to add it as soon as possible :P

Anyway thanks for your support! We're always glad to see motivated people like you joining the project :D
And congratulations for bringing Portuguese to the 6th position in terms of number of sentences!

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tinacalysto tinacalysto December 18, 2009 December 18, 2009 at 6:37:42 PM UTC link Permalink

>>>> You will not be able to set the language as Norwegian (yet), but you can do that later, [...]

Great, I'll do that. I don'
Regarding the bokmål/nynorsk differentiation, I guess something similar happens to Portuguese... in most cases one can handle to write a phrase that sounds like Brazilian Portuguese and that spoken in Portugal, but sometimes that's just impossible. Same thing for African Portuguese, which sounds to me almost like a different language. In this case I'm indicating in the phrase 'Portugal'/'Brazil'.

tinacalysto tinacalysto December 18, 2009 December 18, 2009 at 6:40:49 PM UTC link Permalink

(Crap, I sent the message by mistake without having finished it)
Well, I don't think the bokmål/nynorsk differentiation would be a problem. Most online dictionaries I've seen so far deal with bokmål as the pattern.

(btw, thanks for your gentle commentary)

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TRANG TRANG December 19, 2009 December 19, 2009 at 9:01:59 PM UTC link Permalink

The thing is, we want to be as accurate as possible.

I have no idea how different Bokmål and Nynorsk are, but I believe they are more different than the difference between Portuguese in Portugal and in Brazil. There must be a reason why there are two different language codes for each in the ISO 639-3 codes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language).

Besides it could offend some people if we don't make the difference ^^'

sysko sysko December 18, 2009 December 18, 2009 at 5:28:57 PM UTC link Permalink

and congratulation to have contribute to have made today the second (and with a little bit effort) day in term of contributions

http://tatoeba.fr/eng/contribut...ivity_timeline

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sysko sysko December 18, 2009 December 18, 2009 at 5:39:31 PM UTC link Permalink

* and with a little bit effort made it the first day , typed too fast sorry

TRANG TRANG December 23, 2009 December 23, 2009 at 1:15:37 AM UTC link Permalink

Norwegian Bokmål has been added as a supported language :)

Please, when you have time, add a few sentences in this language to check if the language detection works properly.

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tinacalysto tinacalysto January 5, 2010 January 5, 2010 at 7:28:24 PM UTC link Permalink

thank you. The language detection is working fine.