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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
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>>> 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.
>>
>>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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