Translator

Hi,

I am looking to make a Faerie Language translator. from a langugage i have compiled i have little knowledge of scripting. Anyone know of a translator script that i can use or who i might be able to contact regairding making me one.


Ta

Ka

Would any of these be any use: /invalid_link.html? Depends on what you mean by having "compiled" this language, I guess; if you've actually invented a vocabulary of your own, and want to substitute your words for English ones, prolly not.

You might do better asking over at Products Wanted /147/1.html

any language is going to have lots of words, unless yours directly manipulates just the letters of a preexisting language, odds are its going to all have to be done on the web side anyway....

which means http requests, both for encoding and decoding... which is how the translators I've seen inworld, work. (in your case you can cheat and only do the encoding by request, and just make the receiver pay attention to a certain channel, to pre translate the encoded message.)

these two links contain most of what would be needed for that.
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlHTTPRequest
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlListen

Thanks

I have written the language myself starting from a base of quenyan and welsh and apply my own rules of gramma and such to it. so that it is now very different from either. So what i need is a translator that can both translate(like the elven translators i have seen in world) so that a person wearing can both understand in english what is being said and be able to translate their words into the language too.

I am only a beginner scripter and woulldn't even know how to start compliling such a script, i am a better linguist than i am scripter LOL.

As suggested i have posted also in products wanted, but if anyone know of a script that i can use that is alreeady complied or someone who is capable of compling me one, i would be most grateful.


Ka

to date the language is not on anywebsite, so i dont have a http address for it is there still a way?

Well programming languages have very much to see with linguistic...

If you give us simples examples in your language maybe we can get you started.

I'm assuming the language dictionary is rather large, so the only way I can imagine this working completely inworld is via notecard loaded look ups.

essentially you'd load up a dictionary script from notecard(s) with word pairs, and your main script would request a word, and the dictionary script would respond with the word pair. if one dictionary script is not enough, you could use multiples, and have them only respond if the word is found, or go round robin so you didn't have to use a timeout for unknown words.

lookups like this are bound to be a bit slow in LSL even with optimizations, which is why I suggested a webserver solution, but they are possible

Well, I was thinking about a language parser, there is one actually in LSL Library that will need to be modified to achieve your goal.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_languageAPI

See if it is enough for your needs and let us know if you encounter any troubles.