Languages

TorgoX on 2002-03-13T08:16:32

Dear Log,

To see all the languages that Google supports showing its interface in, go here and look at the pulldown.


Languages?

ziggy on 2002-03-13T16:07:14

Some of those are downright scary:
  • Klingon
  • Hacker
  • Interlingua
  • Bork, bork, bork!
  • Elmer Fudd
  • Latin
  • Pig Latin
What happened to Dahut? Buffy? Navajo?

Re:Languages?

chromatic on 2002-03-14T04:56:42

Bleach.

But no more "joke" entries

pne on 2002-03-25T14:11:28

I kind of thought it was a pity when they stopped accepting requests for what they consider "joke" languages... so they had Klingon, Hacker, and Elmer Fudd, but now they only accept "real live" natural languages.

I had considered taking their file of strings and translating them into my favourite conlang, but alas! 'Tis not to be.

I wonder whether I could use a kind of proxy that'd filter their output and try to recognise which strings are Google standard strings (and to be translated) and which are search results, ads, etc. (and to be left alone). But that kind of modification probably goes against their TOS.... ah yes, "You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and display them". Bummer.