Category Archives: language

Google in Maori

August 6, 2008 – 2:28 pm

On the Offiical Google Blog, a much more informative post has been made about the effort and work that has been done to get Google in Maori off the ground and exactly who should take credit for this hard work. Since I posted about it, I have received a rather large number of hits; so […]

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Google in te reo Māori

July 23, 2008 – 10:43 pm

Well almost, it would be great if google translate had te reo Māori options. Despite all the news about how great this is for te reo maori, I can’t actually find any Google application that will do anything in te reo Māori.
Unbelievably, I could find Klingon, Elmer Fudd, Hacker and something called “Bork bork bork“; […]

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Word of the day: House

July 12, 2008 – 12:59 pm

Wood, it is either boring, or a little naughty… and you are unlikely to ever need to know it, unless you are a builder. And if you were, you might use it to build a house; today’s word is “House”. The first word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 characters. […]

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Word of the day: Water

July 11, 2008 – 12:57 am

You might wonder why the word of the day is so simple, it is an attempt to build an understanding of other languages. I figure that with a word a day, I might understand a dozen different words in written form… The first word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 […]

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