Elvish and Klingon

DadOf8 · 03-25-2005, 01:45 PM

Okay, everyone will think this is really weird, but here goes:
I work for a Web filtering company and one of the things we do is classify web sites into languages. The way we do this is we take a sample of ten Web pages that are at least 90% written in that language and train our computer to recognize that language based on the samples we give it. My boss has asked me to find 10 sites that are written in Elvish (Sindarin, Tengwar, or Quenya) and 10 sites that are written in Klingon. I have been looking for about an hour and have only found 3 sites that are 90% or more written in Sindarin. If anyone is really, really, bored and wants to send me Elvish and Klingon URLs, please post them here. One more thing, they can't be JPG images of the language, it has to be actually typed into the HTML code of the page. I know there is no Unicode for Elvish so this would be the phonetic equivalents.

Thanks.

jasoncox · 03-25-2005, 02:01 PM

Google in Klingon:

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/

DadOf8 · 03-25-2005, 02:13 PM

Thanks. Apparently we are going for a niche market. (I guess).

Czar Jake · 03-25-2005, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by DadOf8

Okay, everyone will think this is really weird, but here goes:
I work for a Web filtering company and one of the things we do is classify web sites into languages. The way we do this is we take a sample of ten Web pages that are at least 90% written in that language and train our computer to recognize that language based on the samples we give it. My boss has asked me to find 10 sites that are written in Elvish (Sindarin, Tengwar, or Quenya) and 10 sites that are written in Klingon. I have been looking for about an hour and have only found 3 sites that are 90% or more written in Sindarin. If anyone is really, really, bored and wants to send me Elvish and Klingon URLs, please post them here. One more thing, they can't be JPG images of the language, it has to be actually typed into the HTML code of the page. I know there is no Unicode for Elvish so this would be the phonetic equivalents.

Thanks.

..and I thought my boss asked me to do crazy things!!!

Hiddnfox · 03-25-2005, 02:42 PM

I remember seeing an entire google homepage site that was translated into klingon so you could search under klingon words for things.........how sad.

on a somewhat suimilar note being sci-fi, someday the old George Lucas will rise from the dead and kill the modern Lucas and restoer the original Star Wars to its glory, cause we all know Han shot Greedo in cold blood!

Rover · 03-25-2005, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by DadOf8

Thanks. Apparently we are going for a niche market. (I guess).

The Sindar market is just waiting to be engaged. MLS is well positioned to appeal to the Sindarin fan base, with its ties to Middle Earth and sporting success in the past (OK, more battles than sports).

Anyway, good to see such forward thinking in the forum.

DadOf8 · 03-25-2005, 02:54 PM

Yeah, I thought my boss was joking with me at first but he told me he's serious. He even asked me how it's coming and I told him that I've enlisted outside help. That didn't bother him one bit. The story behind this is we were all sitting here eating lunch and one of the developers mentioned that he could read Elvish. Our CTO was intrigued by this and wondered if we could classify Elvish sites. I told him that it was too close to Scandanavian languages and they would get put into Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, et al. Then my boss said, "Let's try it." I said, "You're joking, right?" He said, "No, I want 10 examples of Klingon and 10 examples of Elvish." Well, I'm not going to bust my butt over it. I looked for about an hour and found 3 Elvish sites. I actually manage the Human Verification Team, so I have one of them looking for Klingon sites right now. But if anyone here really wants to take on a project to keep you busy, feel free to look for some. I used Google. I think they want to be able to tell Marketting that we classify Klingon and Elvish sites so that when they go to Comdex they can impress the geeks. No, my boss does not smoke funny stuff.

jasoncox · 03-25-2005, 03:37 PM

You can get a degree in Klingon from The Klingon Language Institute.

http://www.kli.org/

There a a few pages of good Klingon there for you.

I read an article about a guy in Seattle that got a job because he spoke "fluent" Klingon. Apparently there was a star trek fan in a long-term care facility up in Seattle that had some sort of brain problem. (I can't remember if it was trauma or disease) Anyway, this patient had apparently lost the ability to speak except "jiberish". One day one of the workers discovered that he was actually speaking Klingon. So, they actually posted a job for someone that spoke Klingon so they could assist with this patients care. Funny stuff.

DadOf8 · 03-25-2005, 07:13 PM

Maybe Elvish or Klingon will be the next Esperanto. I like the way Elvish sounds a whole lot more than Klingon. Apparently they're even teaching Elvish at a college in England. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3532003.stm

Rover · 03-26-2005, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by DadOf8

Maybe Elvish or Klingon will be the next Esperanto. I like the way Elvish sounds a whole lot more than Klingon. Apparently they're even teaching Elvish at a college in England. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3532003.stm

Judging by the interviews I've seen with members of the England National Team, they should keep working on teaching English before going for Elvish.