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Thread #62402   Message #1009172
Posted By: RangerSteve
27-Aug-03 - 03:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: language translation and accent database
Subject: RE: BS: language translation and accent database
I looked up various phrases that I use at work (license and registration, please), unfortunately, there's no pronunciation key. We have a lot of Eastern Europeans in New Jersey, and there's no way I'm going to try and pronounce those languages. I could start an international incident without knowing it.

And why would I need anything translated to or from Esperanto? Are there people who speak that tongue and no other? Anyway, I looked up some words, and Esperanto comes up lacking. For example: there's no word for "Driver". Then again, William Shatner did a movie filmed entirely in Esperanto (really, I'm not kidding), so now I can rent it and figure out what's going on.