Oh my... :/
His newest sock puppet name is "directtrue".
I hope there is (or will be) an easy way of deleting that user and his additions to the database at once.

Hi, Pierre and welcome! http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/547011

Many contributors choose indeed to copy selected sentences from books but this has many failings:

1) Book translations are sometimes inaccurate. Books are not translated on a per sentence basis, generally and book translators also have their failings.
The best example is the Bible which is absolutely full of successive dramatic translation errors that have shaped modern religions.

2) Importing sentences from scanned books (from Google Books, for instance), also imports scanning errors, and there are a lot (absence of accents, wrong split of words at the end of lines, etc.)

3) Books do not reflect spoken language, in general.

Also, translating sentences is an enjoyable form of art and a good sport for the brain.

You may read more from the project's creator here http://blog.tatoeba.org/2010/02...n-tatoeba.html

Le compteur est redescendu à 209 mille et des brouettes...ça va ça vient...Comme disait Raymond Devos, le flux et le reflux me font marrer.

Well, there is a problem with determinig who is ‘native’... With my parents, I speak Russian (though heavily influenced by Belarusian) and Ukrainian (though heavily influenced by Russian). In the end, I turn up a native of Belarusian in the list... Well, I don’t really mind... ^^"

auf was beziehst du dich hier?

Добро пожаловать здесь! Как можно помогать тебе?

Добрий вечір!

Дуже гарне речення!

Але Ви додали його на сайт не як речення, а повідомлення на «стіні», а тут його ніхто не зможе перекласти и воно скоро загубиться.

Щоб додати речення, оберіть «Contribute» (якщо в Вас російський інтерфейс, там буде написано «Добавить», польскою—«Dodawaj») в меню нагорі, а потім оберіть «Add sentences» (російською «Добавить предложение», польскою—«Dodawaj zdania»).

Ви, напевне, вже помітили, що мову всього сайта можна вибрати угорі зправа. Україньский переклад інтерфейсу ще не зроблено (якщо Ви захочете допомогти з перекладом, можу пояснити, як), але російський та польский вже є.

You should rephrase your note "I haven't included anyone as a native speaker of languages that don't have native speakers: Esperanto, Klingon, Latin, Toki Pona, Lojban, Volapük,... ", because at least Esperanto has native speakers, of course. I'm not aware of anyone of them working here on Tatoeba, but there are one or two thousands of them on the planet.

But they wouldn't appear on the list, perhaps, as they're all bilingual and since you only take into account *one* native language, you'd probably choose the other one (which usually *is* the stronger language for that person).

But your note makes it look as if Esperanto had no native speakers.

it's probably quicker to go directly to this link for unidentified languages http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...ne/indifferent

And it's normal that sentences are created with unidentified language when the language has not yet been created. It's the normal recommended procedure.
Most recent creations are Sorbian.

what a coincidence, just before I planned to go to sleep ....

I recommend visiting ##English on the IRC network Freenode.

something is wrong with that list. It features sentences that ARE translated in the languages it says they're not...

You can erase favorites in the same way as you create them, click on the heart (that now is grey), and that sentence will disappear from your list of favorites.