An article last Friday about a "record-a-thon" that hoped to capture at least 50 of the 112 languages spoken in the Bay Area rendered incorrectly the name of a start-up that has created a database of phrase videos.
On Saturday, residents will get a rare opportunity to hear -- and speak in -- as many tongues as possible, thanks to a collaboration between the Internet Archive and the Long Now Foundation, nonprofits dedicated to archival work, and Mightyverse, a start-up that has created a database of phrase videos.
And the commentary soon grates: Peter Drury and Jim Beglin are hardly a dream team, but you end up feeling a bit sorry for them since PES 2017 has far too small a database of commentary phrases, so repetition soon sets in.
The program works by monitoring everything that crosses the computer screen and comparing the sites visited and the words appearing on the screen with a database of sexually oriented sites and phrases.
The index-card-sized nüvi has GPS functionality (including detailed maps, turn-by-turn voice directions and automatic routing), a text and spoken-language translator, which includes a database of 17,000 words or 20,000 phrases in nine languages, an international currency converter and a world clock.
The patent application leaves future users free to determine for themselves what text would be considered problematic and to specify what to include in their database of phrases: "[T]he database may be initially populated, for example and without limitation, by a member of a company's legal department, other employees, or outside consultants".
The online retailer Amazon.com has introduced a feature that lets users search for specific words or phrases in a database of the texts of 120,000 books, drawing skepticism from an authors' group.
Paul Lundahl, co-founder of Mightyverse, a company that is creating a database of videos of people speaking useful phrases in everything from Urdu to Japanese to Na'vi, the language from the film "Avatar," agreed, saying he hoped the event would get people to "celebrate the idea of recording their language".
In addition to locating files by name, type or date modified, Windows can do a search based on the files' text; recent versions, including Windows 2000 and XP, do so with a feature called Indexing Service, which can create a database of documents for searching by keywords, phrases or properties.
In a database of 18 major newspapers, the relative frequency of phrases like "race prejudice" has declined by 60percentt since 1980 (as far back as the online records go), while the frequency of "racism" has doubled.
