I would like to make a suggestion about the Japanese sentences in the corpus. I find sentences with automatically added furigana not very convenient. Most of them are not correct so, since they don’t fulfill their function, they become useless. Some people usually post comments with the right reading, but wouldn’t it be better that users themselves could modify that furigana sentences?

The fact of not being able to find words just by writing the hiragana is also a problem. Sometimes a Japanese word may be written with several different kanjis, and the only sentences displayed are those containing the same kanji that you wrote.

From my point of view, a good and easy solution would be having furigana sentences deleted and letting users write a related sentence wholly in hiragana, as it was a translation. This way it would become possible to search by pronunciation and not just by kanji. What do you think?

Ich wollte noch einmal nach Meinungen bezüglich naheliegender Übersetzungen von Eigennamen fragen.

Bekanntlich sind die Namen "Tom" und "Mary" als Standardplatzhalter für irgendwelche Namen besonders verbreitet. Während "Tom" sich ohne weiteres in das Klangbild des Deutschen einfügt, ist das bei "Mary" offensichtlich nicht der Fall. Deutsche Entsprechungen wären "Marie" oder "Maria".

Wie denkt Ihr darüber, "Marie" oder "Maria" statt "Mary" zu schreiben?

@sysko

Peux-tu rendre les noms des nouvelles langues introduites traductibles pour Launchpad, s'il te plaît ? C'est chiant de ne pas les avoir dans l'ordre en français ou en espéranto...
Merci.

About tags...
I was wondering if tags which refer to almost the same aspect of sentences are meant to be combined into one tag. If so; who is responsible for that?
There seem to be many equivalent pairs, for instance: job and profession. I believe they should be merged. Is this a right approach for such situations?

Hello All

I'm busy these days finishing to handle everything before my holiday vacation
(I've changed home, finish to correct some final exams, write a final end of the year report) which should take me two or three days, and after this I will be free for 4 months. So don't worry I've been or still be a little late to reply to messages recently

I truly want to congratulate our contributors fanty and Amastan for getting Lithuanian and Berber, in a short time, in the 27th and 29th positions respectively
it's been an outstanding achievement!

El buscador tiene algun problema?
No puedo encontrar esta frase usandolo.
http://tatoeba.org/spa/sentences/show/1572070
Buscando por .. no sale:
=Terminaremos
=Empezado
"empezado a construir"
La frase no es nueva, ya deberia esta actualizada.

Have Searcher any problem?
I cannot find this sentence.
http://tatoeba.org/spa/sentences/show/1572070

I think we should add Piedmontese language (Piemontèis/lenga piemontèisa) to the language menu. Piemontèis, although not recognized as official by the italian government, is an actual language still spoken by a lot of people in the Piedmont region in northwestern Italy. It has a grammar and vocabulary of its own with substantial differences with the italian ones.

Please add Piemontèis language and I'll contribute with many sentences and translations directly from native speakers.

Thank you

I want to contribute to adding English to Tamil translation.

But I do not see Tamil language in the menu option. Tamil is official in at least 3 countries - India, Singapore and Sri Lanka and unofficial minor language in several countries including Malaysia, Mauritious, South Africa etc.

It would be very useful several Tamil-speaker if Tamil can be included in the options.


Thank you,
Rajesh

Is there any statistics available about the number of connections between languages? Something simple, like the sentences statistics:
http://tatoeba.org/eng/stats/sentences_by_language
but counting not only number of sentences, but also the number of the direct translations/links from this language to others?