I think this immediate indexing is only recent. Relying on Google also doesn't seem to be very promising of late.

The notifications have gone down a few times, the e-mail's been laggy, and there's always the chance that it won't consistently auto-index.

Okay, I won't argue with you (and not in Deutsch, since my Deutsch is terrible). However, three things:

1) If you're going to call me "kurzsichtig", you should at least address the point. You didn't say a word about "imperialism", which is what the "count" was about. Like xtofu said, it is a practical medium in very many communities, including this one. I don't like the fact either, since I don't like English very much despite being a native, and hate speaking it if not with other natives, but that's the way it is.

2) I said nothing about Esperanto in my "count", and you wrote me a full paragraph about why Esperanto is great.

3) There is a benefit to doing things that are hard. Designing a language to be "easy" is like designing a utopia. The world doesn't work that way.

If you want to continue this discussion, send me a PM, as I won't reply to anything else on this thread.

Exactly.

(Although, the number of users who currently believe that using English is a sign of "imperialism" is probably at... 1. Well, just to be safe... 2 or 3. But I only know of 1, and he's about as loud as 20.)

If that isn't exponential growth, then I don't know what it is...

Yea, checking back:

http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence...00803#comments

Wait, was this a mistake, though?

I remember asking Demetrius, and he said that both spellings were acceptable (and I think this is the one he said he preferred). Or am I missing something...?

You should bring this to Demetrius's attention. He's the Tartar representative.

November 13 is perfect for me (I think).

> I doubt a rating system would be useful.

Given the number of arguments about (at times) pointless, trivial details that occur on Tatoeba, combined with the ridiculous number of sentences and the low #-of-ratings-per-sentence that would result... I'm actually beginning to agree with this point.

Though worth a try, in my opinion.

Esperanto is a bit special. What makes me think that it'll just keep going up is the fervor of its contributors and their specific desire to promote the language. Not that there's anything bad in that... it's just that there might be a huge imbalance down the road.

Not that I have anything against Esperanto... but do people realize that Tatoeba is going to become Esperanto World in a few months? At this rate, it's going to pass English and Japanese by quite a lot.

Mixed opinions about the number one language on this site being artificial...

K. See you in a couple of days, then.

Check the timeline, I guess... Or browse to sentence #1.

We could probably vote. Or we could just do it several times a year, when there was enough momentum for it.

e.g. "Hey, it's Christmas vacation, let's have a Tatoeba Day!"

(Satan votes "Yes" on Tatoeba Day ;-)

(on a separate note, this is the 666th thread... take that as you will)

Wacky idea: Tatoeba Day

For hardcore Tatoeba fans...

Why don't we pick a day of the year (or maybe, even, a date of each month) on which we all try to contribute crazy amounts of sentences? And then we see how high we can set the single-day contribution record to, and then try to pass it on the following Tatoeba Day.

No... duplicates should be fused, not deleted.

And this one had 10 or so sentences linked to it, all of which have now been split off and separated because they lost the common link.

(did the "boss" delete it?)

@TRANG and/or sysko:

Any idea what happened to this sentence:

http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/489379