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Borg Dude
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PostSun Aug 18, 2002 10:49 pm    Universal Translators

What i wonder is how does the universal translator automatically know all these alien languages. Like when the enterprise meets a new alien the translator automatically knows their language. How is that possible?

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PostSun Aug 18, 2002 11:25 pm    

i dunno, but it is cool though!

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PostMon Aug 19, 2002 1:54 am    Re: Universal Translators

Borg Dude wrote:
What i wonder is how does the universal translator automatically know all these alien languages. Like when the enterprise meets a new alien the translator automatically knows their language. How is that possible?

it doesnt.its added to it.mainly by hoshi.



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PostMon Aug 19, 2002 1:54 am    

it just knows most of them.lol


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PostMon Aug 19, 2002 7:05 pm    

who knows.. Its neat. I want one.


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PostMon Aug 19, 2002 7:07 pm    

I like alot of things in star trek.. like holodecks. Those are cool. Lol I want one!!!!!!


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PostMon Aug 19, 2002 9:48 pm    

i want one too.


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PostFri Aug 23, 2002 12:53 am    

i have no idea how they work, from what i have heard a few video games (counterstrike, everquest) have tried translators but they never seem to work well because people use acronims (sp?). I don't see how this would work, cause alien languages prolly have slang or that would be hard to translate, also what if they have words that couldn't be translated into english.


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PostMon Aug 26, 2002 5:44 pm    

yeah that is weird, but wat is more weird is that in voyager being in the delta quadrent an all the thing can do all the new alien lanuages too. and it is also weird how nilex,kes and the kazon speak english.

Hey if the borg invaded France would the say their asimalation speach in french??



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PostSun Sep 01, 2002 10:31 am    

I'd just like a dermal regenerator.
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PostSat Sep 07, 2002 7:15 pm    

I know how they work

First the computer listens to a languige then it quicly decides thrue it's knowledge of outher races and gestures that the ailiens doing what the basic idea is then it figure by speach the ailiens nouns verbs ect, then once all thouse are heard the new language can be strung together by the computer to form frases, but only basic ones at first, as more of the languige is heared more can be deturmind untill the entire languige is maped. it's how the origanal people to study africa's many diferent populations learnd african, only the computer dose it faster, much faster.


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PostTue Sep 10, 2002 7:02 pm    

Those are awesome. I know that they are in the combadge.


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PostThu Sep 19, 2002 8:52 pm    

i dont know maybe it just exstrapolates the known languages similar to the the new one and comes up with a somewhat acurate translation i guess


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PostTue Sep 24, 2002 3:06 pm    

I dont know?!? But there cool and they always fail on ''Enterprise''


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PostTue Sep 24, 2002 8:16 pm    

Borg771 wrote:
who knows.. Its neat. I want one.

ya I would love to have one..this way we won't need the 2 years of a foreign language to get out of high school



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PostSat Dec 07, 2002 10:53 pm    

Ok that answers my first question...but i was thinking again and how does the translator translate the lip movements of the people? Even though he would sound like he was talking in english his mouth would still be moving like he was talking in his own language. I guess the computer could change it if they were talking over the view screen but what about when theyre face to face????

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PostSat Dec 07, 2002 10:58 pm    

That is a flaw becuse the acters are human.


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PostMon Jan 06, 2003 11:44 am    Universal Translators

The computer searchs The StarFleet Databack For the best language use is it.


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