Putting all our pre-indoctrinated ideas aside and having considered
the merits of both the NIV and the NWT translations, could it be
that a 'good' translation would be a balance of the two?
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My programme will soon be sweeping the internet in a manner similar to
Google's algorithm (crawling from link to link) and will parse and store
the frequency of every word and combination of words (mistakes included)
in every modern language that the visible web has to offer.
This database of word/phrase frequencies will be the basis of a new database
of numbers. Each unique number will represent one 'concept', which I believe
to be common denominator of all languages. And through intelligent self
correction mechanisms the programme will decide when a particular phrase
can map to a particular concept. As the entire algorithm is guided by concepts
(with meanings) and phrases alone it will not be able to produce unnatural
language yet will remain faithful and consistent in its mappings.
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Nor will it fall into the trap that the NIV has of denying the right to interpret
the text of the reader by forcing any particular random idiom which supports
any particular doctrine as idiomatic translations will only be performed as a
result of careful meaning establishing mechanisms which map contexts to idiomatic
expressions.
Good!
When my project is complete the entire source code will made available under open
source license so that the code can be subjected to rigourous international
peer review. This will be to ensure that I am not allowed to inject my own personal
beliefs into the mechanism (something which we are all guilty of from time to time).
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