random sentences for sure, mysql doesn't like random at all ^^ we're on the way to try to make it faster

We plan to do so, you will have more details and maybe a proof of concet at the beginning of April :)

Ah, indeed, indeed. I had changed the 'text' field from varchar to varbinary, but kept the length to 500. That's why those entries were truncated. I've fixed it and did a new export of the jpn_indices.


> This Saturday's jpn_indices [...]

How do you know about that by the way? I don't remember making it official yet, that the download files would be upadted on Saturdays. (or did I? o.o)

:D thank you^^.

TRANG says:

omg you're so funny, stop "abusing" the wall :D

Ah, who told on me, that was supposed to be a secret.

> There's a lot of english sentences that are grammatically
> correct but I don't think anyone will ever say them, use
> them, or even see them in any english media.

I think that it's more correct to say "any _current_ English media". The Tanaka corpus is old, and it used even older sources of sentences. Quite a few of them would not be out of place in books published before 1940, but are rather confusing to those of us in 2010.

I think those that are old-fashioned or highly idiomatic should be kept as demonstrating historical usage but should not be used as guides to writing English (or for translating into English). I think they are good candidates for an [Old-fashioned] tag or something. ;-)

Another problem is those that are written like dictionary entries (lots of 'one' usage) and those that are not really whole sentences. I think these are worth improving, as time permits, but are probably not a high priority for translation into other languages.

And there's one also for spanish, I think it's free:

http://sentences.spanish-only.com/

Maybe there could be a collaboration with tatoeba with that too :)

1. Like sysko said, the top menu has reached its limits. Someone with a 20 characters username (which I think is the maximum length) and using the French interface... might actually not even "fit" up there if (s)he's a Linux user... Something we'll have to check.
What I can do for now though, is to have a link to the blog from the "What's new" (along with the Twitter link). And in the blog, there's a "Links" section which only has Tatoeba, but I can add other things.

2. You will have more hints on what we are working on in the next blog post. I can't be writing about everything we have in mind because there are just so many things. But I can at least mention what's planned for the next few weeks :)

3. This is actually not very easy to implement because each sentence itself is already a link, and clicking on it leads to the page where you can see the comments and the logs. But I agree that it would be definitely useful.

1 - in french version and also regarding to ergonomic issue, 7 items is already a maximum numbers, but in the same time I agree it will be better to have the links in more visible place, but what if we add a wiki, "dialogs" and so ? So I think it need us to review what is needed, where, and to make is as much pratical as possible, I don't really the top menu to be over bloated (but who wants ^^)

2 - In a first time yep it can be a temporary solution waiting a wiki (after finishing all the "small issue" I makke it my 1st priority)

3 - For chinese, adso (which is definitely my swiss army knife for chinese) give th possibility to segment a chinese sentences into "words", at least consistant n-grams, so it would not be "so" difficult, and I'm sure such tool exist also for japanese