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>On 3/25/02 23:21, "Jason Townsend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>> Why not send both the original message and the translated version?
>>
>> I agree... Please file a feature request for this:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/fire
>>
>> We should also probably send the translations of incoming messages to the
>> remote user so they know how their message is being interpreted. That way
>> both people can see the complete transcript.
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>I don't think this is a good idea. The fact that they're speaking *another
>language* entirely should be clue enough that there may be some
>miscommunications. Besides, even without Fire's help, miscommunications
>happen when someone is speaking a language in which one is not fluent.
>Miscommunications happen even when people are speaking the same language,
>native to both speakers.
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>All that will be accomplished by echoing back the translated copy is the
>confusion of the remote user and and the convolution of the conversation.
>If a Spanish-speaker is using Fire to talk with me in English, having the
>Spanish translation of what I send them in English echoed back to me is
>going to be of no use to me. I don't speak Spanish, so being able to see
>how what I said translated is literally meaningless.
>
>Colter
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