Tatoeba day #4 - Other sentences

Deutsch

1. Ihre lederne Aktentasche hatte sie unter dem Ellenbogen eingeklemmt, das Handy zwischen Ohr und Schulter, unter dem anderen Ellenbogen die Akte, in der einen Hand einen Kaffeebecher und in der anderen einen Blumenstrauß, als sie auf der Treppe mit Herrn Wallenkamp zusammenstieß. [#772888]
2. Jesus hasst dich. [#639202]
3. Der irische Jig und die französische Gigue unterscheiden sich in Tempo, Mikrorhythmik und deutschem Genus. [#796420]
4. Der Drops ist gelutscht. [#642921]
5. Würden Sie bitte einen Warentrennstab zwischen Ihre und meine Waren legen?! [#806248]
6. Schnurren Tiger? [#569553]
7. In der deutschen Sprache ist es möglich Substantive miteinander zu verbinden, so dass Worte herauskommen wie Türschlossenteiser oder Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag, welche meist in keinem Wörterbuch stehen, aber doch wirkliche Wörter sind. [#701923]
8. Hamburger sind eine köstlichere Labsal als Berliner. [#811009]
9. Ein seltsames deutsches Wort ist "entfernen", denn die Vorsilbe "ent-" bedeutet, dass man etwas fortnimmt, in diesem Fall also die Ferne fortnimmt, sich also nähert, was aber das genaue Gegenteil der wirklichen Bedeutung von "entfernen" ist. [#636885]
10. Schließlich wird gefolgert, dass eine inhaltliche Bestimmung des Guten (oder Schlechten) durch eine Ethik nicht zu leisten ist, sondern dass jedem zurechnungsfähigen Menschen die Bedeutung des Ausdrucks »gut« bereits praktisch bekannt ist und dass eine Ethik lediglich eine einleuchtende, kohärente und einfache Beschreibung des Bekannten leisten soll, an der man sich orientieren kann. [#752827]

English

1. Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. [#1550]
2. The Italian language dies a little every time an anglophone orders "a panini". [#795923]
3. Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone. [#1695]
4. The new Tatoeba website will use a home-made "hyper" database, a "made-from-scratch" search engine, and will run on a tatoebux-OS server with a tatoetel CPU made entirely out of tatoebium. [#786625]
5. When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true. [#1740]
6. Tatoeba: Where attention to detail is sacred, and punishment is swift. [#481877]
7. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. [#1855]
8. Yoda's grammar learned you have. [#527321]
9. The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. [#552745]
10. Does a Roman cat have a Roman meow? [#800683]
11. I am the last remaining worshipper of the goddess Demeter. [#810862]
12. Prime numbers are like life, they are completely logical, but impossible to find the rules for, even if you spend all your time thinking about it. [#1844]
13. What happens when an unstoppable force hits an unmovable object? [#704435]
14. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. [#2285]
15. Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude. [#531715]
16. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. [#667970]
17. Do we exist? [#803702]
18. I killed God. [#811617]
19. Something must be wrong with the machinery. [#38216]
20. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. [#349900]
21. Trolling is a art. [#653143]
22. I know that I know it, but I can't remember it. [#809257]
23. I would love to write hundreds of sentences on Tatoeba but I've got things to do. [#357919]
24. Dima slept with 25 men in one night and then killed them. [#477989]
25. Americans call it the Vietnam War; the Vietnamese call it the American War. [#799288]
26. I can’t stand panties. [#809845]

Français

1. Est-ce que tu savais que les hommes qui prennent régulièrement la pilule ne tombent pas enceints ? [#6071]
2. La démocratie est la pire forme de gouvernement, mis à part toutes les autres que l'on a essayées. [#3367]
3. Coq qui chante sur le fumier, temps qui va ou pas s'altérer. [#552318]
4. Le réel problème n'est pas de savoir si les machines pensent mais si les hommes le font. [#4130]
5. Pour parler à la biche, point n'est besoin de porter des bois. [#593886]
6. Troller est une art. [#655113]
7. Cette phrase n'a pas de sens. [#180967]
8. Les mathématiques sont la partie des sciences qu'on pourrait continuer à faire si on se réveillait demain et découvrait que l'univers avait disparu. [#3515]
9. Fermier qui gît, plus il ne vit. [#552356]
10. Je sais que tu penses avoir compris ce que tu pensais que j'avais dit, mais je ne suis pas sûr que tu as réalisé que ce que tu as entendu n'est pas ce que je voulais dire. [#336701]
11. En écrasant bien les angles droits d'un carré on peut obtenir un patatoïde. [#695491]
12. Votre attitude, non votre aptitude, détermine votre altitude. [#663681]
13. Ce politicien est un digne représentant de la gauche caviar. [#432757]
14. On ne se marie pas avec quelqu'un avec qui on peut vivre - on se marie avec la personne sans qui on ne peut pas vivre. [#3677]
15. Pluie en mai, avril était. [#553214]
16. Dima coucha avec 25 hommes en une seule nuit, puis les tua. [#480038]
17. Je trouve que le lexique de Tatoeba manque furieusement de sexe. [#518038]
18. Il faut de la sagesse pour comprendre la sagesse : la musique n'est rien si l'audience est sourde. [#3682]
19. Quand les vaches volent au ciel, elles semblent moins naturelles. [#591193]
20. La grammaire par Yoda apprise tu as ! [#527319]

Tatoeba day #4 - Inspiring sentences

中文

1. 我们只能知道过去，并不能改变。我们只能改变未来，却不能预知。 [#501713]
2. 赠与比接受更让人觉得幸福。 [#787202]
3. 报纸可以阻碍我们对世界的看法。 [#805063]
4. 如果两个人总是意见相同，那么他们其中一个就没用了。 [#502846]
5. 拥有一切的人可能会失去一切。 [#796651]
6. 每天读一些没有人读的东西。每天想一些没有人想的东西。每天做一些没有人会傻到去做的事。一直和别人保持一致对头脑有害。 [#810759]
7. 当我们明白真正的自己时，生活开始了。 [#503077]
8. 通往地狱之路是由好的意图铺砌而成的。 [#797526]
9. 得不到的比你所拥有的更好。 [#503080]
10. 世界就像一本书，不旅游的人只读了一页。 [#804867]

Deutsch

1. Nachdem er sich nie für Physik interessiert hatte, hörte er mir nicht zu, als ich ihm das Gravitationsgesetz erklärte, sondern breitete seine Arme aus und flog mit einem letzten Augenzwinkern bevor er am Horizont verschwand davon. [#570161]
2. Je nach ehemaligen, jetzigen und sich andeutenden gesellschaftlichen Gegebenheiten ist jeder mal ewig-gestrig, konservativ oder progressiv. [#809832]
3. Unterrichten ist Lernen. [#659706]
4. Gott?! Ich lasse mein Leben doch nicht von einer Arbeitshypothese bestimmen! [#809836]
5. Ich traf einmal in einer Schule einen Jungen von mittlerer Statur, der einen kleineren Jungen schlug. Ich ermahnte ihn, aber er antwortete: "Die Großen schlagen mich, deshalb schlage ich die Kleinen. Das ist gerecht." Mit diesen Worten fasste er die ganze Menschheitsgeschichte zusammen. [#719785]
6. Ich habe Gott getötet. [#811613]
7. Du hast Mundgeruch. [#392851]
8. Ich erinnere mich an die Zeit, als die Deutschen den Euro "Esperantogeld" nannten, um auszudrücken, dass er nie Wirklichkeit werden würde. Natürlich würde keiner von denen, die das damals sagten, es heute zugeben. Das haben Paradigmen so an sich, dass sie so natürlich zu sein scheinen, dass man sich nicht vorstellen kann, jemals vorher unter anderen Paradigmen, ja sogar gegensätzlichen, gelebt zu haben. [#791877]
9. Sein Versuch, Pudding an die Wand zu nageln, war endlich geglückt. [#812557]
10. Lest jeden Tag etwas, das sonst niemand liest. Denkt jeden Tag etwas, das sonst niemand denkt. Macht jeden Tag etwas, für das sonst niemand anders dumm genug wäre, es zu tun. Es ist schädlich für den Geist, immer im Einklang zu leben. [#501932]

English

1. The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed, not known. [#1744]
2. If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. [#2268]
3. The only useful answers are those that raise new questions. [#1581]
4. Everything is theoretically impossible until it's done. [#2276]
5. Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. [#667922]
6. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [#2289]
7. To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. [#1634]
8. Any universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it. [#1747]
9. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. [#2287]
10. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. [#667965]
11. Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. [#1550]
12. Install Linux! [#799919]
13. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. [#30951]
14. My hobby: inventing irregular forms of verbs. [#812390]
15. We don't live in countries, we live in our languages. That is your home, there and nowhere else. [#460312]
16. Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude. [#531715]
17. If we were supposed to talk more than listen, we would have been given two mouths and one ear. [#667974]
18. He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. [#667973]
19. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. [#1856]
20. Spread the word! [#801242]
21. Miracles are called miracles because they don't happen! [#366922]
22. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. [#483350]
23. Whenever I'm feeling pessimistic about the future of the world, I just think of how much has changed even in the time that I can remember. [#811790]
24. The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it. [#2273]
25. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. [#411071]
26. The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. [#667975]
27. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it. [#2137]
28. An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. [#806441]
29. Save a human. Eat a cannibal. [#451569]
30. We are all stupid, just on different subjects. [#667947]
31. What changes the world is communication, not information. [#1741]
32. That is not art. That is a vagina with teeth. [#794580]
33. The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. [#2259]
34. If you put your mind into the fleshlight, your mind becomes the fleshlight. [#810743]
35. The warrior is conscious of both his strength and his weakness. [#45742]
36. If a sick person folds one thousand paper cranes, her wish will come true. [#30628]
37. The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. [#667970]

Français

1. Les seules réponses utiles sont celles qui posent de nouvelles questions. [#3398]
2. La seule manière sur Terre de multiplier le bonheur est de le diviser. [#4118]
3. On ne peut pas accomplir l'impossible sans tenter l'absurde. [#4196]
4. La vie n'est pas longue, elle est large ! [#4005]
5. La Bible nous dit d'aimer nos voisins, et aussi d'aimer nos ennemis ; probablement parce qu'ils s'agit en général des mêmes personnes. [#416182]
6. Ce qui change le monde, c'est la communication, pas l'information. [#3561]
7. Seuls ceux qui se risqueront à aller trop loin saurons jusqu'où on peut aller. [#4127]
8. Lorsque nous cherchons à découvrir le meilleur des autres, nous faisons ressortir quelque part le meilleur de nous-mêmes. [#4364]
9. Nous sommes ce que nous prétendons être, donc il nous faut faire attention à ce que nous prétendons être. [#4172]
10. L'âme est la prison du corps. [#426670]
11. On ne peut que connaître le passé, pas le changer. On ne peut que changer le futur, pas le connaître. [#3564]
12. Le monde est un livre, et ceux qui ne voyagent pas ne lisent qu'une seule page. [#4132]
13. Muiriel a 20 ans maintenant. [#3097]
14. Si vous prêtez 20$ à quelqu'un et que vous ne revoyez plus jamais cette personne, ça valait probablement le coup. [#4195]
15. Quand un philosophe me répond, je ne comprends plus ma question. [#438774]
16. Si seulement on arrêtait d'essayer d'être heureux on pourrait passer un très bon moment. [#4111]
17. La meilleure façon de prédire l'avenir est de l'inventer. [#4135]
18. Notre opinion est une idée que nous avons ; notre conviction, une idée qui nous a. [#3697]
19. Un paresseux est un homme qui ne fait pas semblant de travailler. [#414139]
20. Le grillon en cage dévore autant que le grillon en liberté. [#582693]

Tatoeba day #4 - Funny sentences

Deutsch

1. Du solltest mit dem Rauchen aufhören. [#396588]
2. Durch die Blume gesagt: Verdufte! [#795808]
3. Wenn ich gut zeichnen könnte, würde ich Bilder im Stil von "Wo ist Walter?" malen, aber Walter weglassen. [#812497]
4. Ihr Profil: Sie haben Ihr Studium der Betriebswirtschaften, der Wirtschaftsinformatik oder idealerweise mit dem Leben abgeschlossen. [#610363]
5. Die "Kunst der Fuge" ist kein Lehrbuch für Klempner. [#808985]
6. Ich bin das Fliegende Spaghettimonster. Du sollst vor Mir nichts mit anderen Monstern haben. (Hinterher ist OK; schütz dich einfach.) Das einzige Monster, das Großschreibung verdient, bin Ich! Andere Monster sind falsche Monster und verdienen keine Großschreibung. [#786661]
7. Die giftigsten Schlangen sind die, in die sich jemand hineingedrängelt hat. [#809842]
8. Tatsächlich ist ein halbes Auge sehr nützlich, denn mit einem halben Auge kann ein Tier die Hälfte von einem anderen Tier sehen, das es auffressen will, und ihm aus dem Weg gehen, und es wird selber das Tier fressen, das nur ein Drittel-Auge oder nur 49% eines Auges hat, weil dieses ihm nicht schnell genug aus dem Weg gehen wird, und das Tier, das aufgefressen wurde, wird keine Kinder bekommen, weil es tot ist. [#653]
9. Als Schüler war er sozusagen süchtig nach Schwänzen. [#793438]
10. Er spricht englisch. [#811502]

English

1. When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. [#667976]
2. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. [#2343]
3. Forecasting is the way of saying what will happen and then explaining why it didn't. [#361147]
4. Christopher Columbus's infinite accomplishments are a threat to Google, who do not know how to index infinity when someone searches for "Christopher Columbus". [#536623]
5. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. [#502597]
6. Save a human. Eat a cannibal. [#451569]
7. When an average person sends a message in a bottle, it's just a childish fantasy. When Christopher Columbus sends a message in a bottle, the fate of an entire country is at stake. [#549245]
8. Do you think that Spermophilus predators have night vision? [#795947]
9. The Romans would never have had the chance to conquer the world if they had first been required to study Latin. [#800888]
10. In Soviet Russia, sentence writes you! [#478089]
11. Numerous violent and sudden casualties among C++ developers are caused by segmentation faults every year. [#708101]
12. Tatoeba: Where sentences are always sentences, except when they aren't. [#451893]
13. There are three different types of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't. [#539572]
14. From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. [#502598]
15. Trolling is a art. [#653143]
16. Christopher Columbus was notorious for repeatedly snoozing his alarm clock by hitting it with his fist. Unfortunately, his "alarm clock" was usually his first mate. [#551085]
17. If you discover any problems on Tatoeba, you should go ahead and blame Sysko. [#797530]
18. I think I spider. [#804809]
19. Christopher Columbus once landed on the moon, but mistook it for Antarctica. [#537226]
20. "Why are you duct-taping that cheeseburger to the wall?" "It's a form of art." [#793380]
21. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. [#1854]
22. The world follows one golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules. [#502380]
23. Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day [#667964]
24. Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty lady is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. [#509746]
25. A carcase is not a box for a motorized vehicle. [#794370]
26. The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. [#552745]
27. Learning Klingon will be of great use for his career as a businessman. [#798039]
28. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. [#349900]
29. With his crew stranded at sea, Christopher Columbus was able to save them from starvation by pulling 100 rabbits out of his hat. [#538857]
30. Tatoeba: Don't cum here on Friday nights, kids. [#518410]
31. It is true that behavior cannot be legislated, and legislation cannot make you love me, but legislation can restrain you from lynching me, and I think that is kind of important. [#414158]
32. An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. [#690971]
33. Christopher Columbus once cut himself with a knife. It made him so angry that he then cut the knife... with himself. [#545957]
34. You must absolutely not lick the floor. [#794934]
35. Lola the cow, Lola the cow, she's smart and she brings trouble, and she goes mooooo. [#707430]
36. Come on, baby, fight my liar! [#798379]
37. Minnesota's state bird is the mosquito. [#418525]
38. For some strange reason I talk to me dogs with an Irish accent. [#663035]

Français

1. Quand on commence à ressembler à la photo de son passeport, on devrait partir en vacances. [#3368]
2. Se taire en classe c'est respecter le sommeil des autres. [#4199]
3. C'est ainsi que Pandark se perdit dans sa chambre et on ne le revit plus jamais. Certains disent qu'il est mort de faim, d'autres qu'il erre encore à la recherche de ses CDs. [#690203]
4. Si vous prêtez 20$ à quelqu'un et que vous ne revoyez plus jamais cette personne, ça valait probablement le coup. [#4195]
5. La logique est une méthode systématique pour arriver à la mauvaise conclusion en toute confiance. [#4200]
6. Bière qui coule, ramasse ta mousse. [#780195]
7. Le meilleur moyen de prendre un train à l'heure, c'est de s'arranger pour rater le précédent. [#4197]
8. Si vous pensez que l'éducation coûte cher, attendez de voir ce que l'ignorance vous coûte. [#4229]
9. Il ne faut compter que sur soi-même. Et encore, pas beaucoup. [#4198]
10. Quand un philosophe me répond, je ne comprends plus ma question. [#438774]

Lojban

1. .o'i mu xagji sofybakni cu zvati le purdi [#635831]
2. ta ba'o cribe .i ta cribe pesxu [#780345]
3. xu lo mlatu pe la romas. latmo latcmo [#798005]
4. pau je'i xu ki'a cu'e mo fi'a xo ma pei [#812842]
5. na nei [#663940]
6. le tadji cu palci [#781428]
7. lo celxa'i na catra lo prenu .i lo prenu cu catra lo prenu [#766568]
8. zgikrxumpa ko [#791197]
9. ie do mi prami [#779051]
10. .a'u mu'i ma do latcmo [#797889]

Español

1. Una vez, Cristóbal Colón se cortó con un cuchillo. Esto le enfadó tanto que entonces cortó el cuchillo...con su propio cuerpo. [#546622]
2. Cuando estés enfadado, cuenta hasta cuatro. Cuando estés muy enfadado, maldice. [#668528]
3. Cristóbal Colón peleó una vez contra Cancerbero, el guardián de tres cabezas del inframundo, con nada más que su sombrero. [#536619]
4. Soy el Monstruo del Espagueti Volante. No adorarás a otros monstruos antes que a Mí. (Después está bien, sólo usa protección). ¡El único monstruo que merece ir con mayúscula soy Yo! Los otros monstruos son monstruos falsos, que no merecen ir con mayúscula. [#598096]
5. Un rectángulo es un cuadrado de lados desiguales dos a dos. [#703894]
6. Con su tripulación varada en el mar, Cristóbal Colón fue capaz de salvarles de morir de inanición al sacar 100 conejos de su sombrero. [#538858]
7. Hasta ahora no sabía para qué se había creado la eternidad. Es para darnos a algunos de nosotros una oportunidad para aprender alemán. [#627869]
8. Cualquier hombre capaz de conducir con prudencia mientras besa a una chica guapa simplemente no está prestando tanta atención al beso como éste merece. [#812889]
9. Nadie que haya llamado a Cristóbal Colón "Cris" ha vivido para hacerlo una segunda vez. [#538862]
10. Cómete una rana viva cada mañana, y no te pasará nada peor durante el resto del día. [#668522]

Tatoeba day #4 - Results

Tatoeba day #4 was about exploration. The idea was to hunt for the "best" sentences in the corpus. I had defined 3 categories: funny sentences, inspiring sentences and other sentences. Participants were asked to create lists of precisely 10 sentences in a same language. It was not required to create a list for each category. It was possible to create 2 lists of a same category but different languages.

Other than me, 5 people submitted lists: BraveSentry, fucongcong, Muiriel, Shishir and Zifre. I would like to thank them for their exploration efforts! There was a total of 23 lists created. I will publish here the stats about owners of the funny/inspiring/other sentences that were listed.

NOTE 1: The score indicated in the parenthesis does not represent the number of sentences, but the number of "votes". A member receives 1 vote whenever one of their sentences has been listed. So if someone had 1 sentence listed 3 times, they would have 3 votes.

NOTE 2: The ownership of the sentences can change over time so the score indicated here is only valid at the time it was calculated.

Owners of funny sentences

List of sentences: http://blog.tatoeba.org/2011/03/tatoeba-day-4-funny-sentences.html

1. Shishir (11)
   
2. BraveSentry (11)
3. FeuDRenais (9)
4. Zifre (8)
5. TRANG (6)
6. CK (3)
7. xeklat (3)
8. MUIRIEL (3)
9. sacredceltic (2)
10. saeb (2)
11. Scott (2)
12. - (2)
13. U2FS (2)
14. jerom (1)
15. papabear (1)
16. qdii (1)
17. Hans_Adler (1)
18. lorx (1)
19. deniko (1)
20. darinmex (1)
21. blay_paul (1)
22. human600 (1)
23. xtofu80 (1)
24. kurisutofu (1)
25. tomkun01 (1)
26. tijlan (1)
27. pandark (1)
28. eS (1)
29. Guybrush88 (1)

Owners of inpisring sentences

List of sentences: http://blog.tatoeba.org/2011/03/tatoeba-day-4-inspiring-sentences.html

1. TRANG (11)
2. CK (10)
3. fucongcong (10)
4. Zifre (9)
5. BraveSentry (7)
6. Guybrush88 (6)
7. Scott (5)
8. Dejo (5)
9. Swift (4)
10. MUIRIEL (3)
11. Esperantostern (2)
12. le_petit_ane_gris (2)
13. arcticmonkey (2)
14. saeb (2)
15. sacredceltic (1)
16. jeanne (1)
17. jakov (1)
18. darinmex (1)
19. xtofu80 (1)
20. U2FS (1)
21. ANH_DAO (1)
22. blay_paul (1)
23. - (1)
24. jerom (1)
25. SUZIE (1)
26. pandark (1)

Owners of other sentences

List of sentences: http://blog.tatoeba.org/2011/03/tatoeba-day-4-other-sentences.html

1. BraveSentry (11)
2. Zifre (8)
3. sacredceltic (5)
4. FeuDRenais (4)
5. TRANG (3)
6. kurisutofu (2)
7. Guybrush88 (2)
8. sysko (2)
9. Swift (2)
10. Goofy (2)
11. saeb (2)
12. U2FS (1)
13. MUIRIEL (1)
14. deniko (1)
15. Romira (1)
16. darinmex (1)
17. Clavain (1)
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Tatoeba day #4 (Mar 26th, 2011)

Tatoeba day #4 is scheduled on Saturday, March 26th. As usual, it will start at 00:00 and will end at 23:59, France time.

The theme

The theme for this 4th Tatoeba day will be... exploration!

It's a bit experimental. I have no idea how well it's going to work, but it's worth trying out :) The idea is to have everyone explore the corpus in search of the "best" sentences in Tatoeba. There will be 3 categories.

1. Funny sentences. Sentences that make you laugh.
2. Inspiring sentences. Sentences that make you want to change the world.
3. Other sentences. Sentences that don't fit in the 2 previous categories but are interesting enough to be worth mentioning.

The rules

Each participant can create 3 types of lists. Each list must be named the following way:

1. [TD4] Funny sentences (lang)
2. [TD4] Inspiring sentences (lang)
3. [TD4] Other sentences (lang)

Replace "lang" by the ISO code of the language. For instance, if it's a list of Swedish funny sentences, the name of the list would be: [TD4] Funny sentences (swe).

You have the right to create lists in more than 1 language. So you can have a list of funny Swedish sentences, a list of funny Hungarian sentences, a list of funny Hindi sentences. Same thing for inspiring sentences and for other sentences. However, you don't have to create a list in all the categories. You can only create lists of funny sentences if you only want to work on funny sentences.

Each list you create must have precisely 10 sentences. No more, no less. Do NOT create two lists with the same language and category. If you have found more than 10 sentences for a specific list, you will have to pick your 10 favorite ones. If you have found less than 10 sentences, you will have to hunt for more, or come up with your own sentences, or seek inspiration in other people's lists (because anyone can view the content of every list, whether they are public or not).

N.B. Do not set your lists as "public. Public lists are lists that ANYONE can modify (i.e. add or delete sentences from the list). Non-public lists are only not editable by others.

Deadline and results

You can start creating your lists as soon as you have read this announcement. You have until the end of Tatoeba day to fill up your lists. Anything you add or remove after that will not be taken into account. To make my life easier, please make sure your lists are named properly, and make sure that other participants lists are named properly!

On Sunday, I will publish the sentences that people have listed, for each category and for each language, ordered by "popularity" (i.e. number of people who listed the sentence). I will also publish stats about who owns the highest number of "best sentences" in Tatoeba :)

Tatoeba update (Mar 21st, 2011)

Small update :)

What's new

• The previously "Latest contributions" page now shows ALL the contributions, including links that are being created. It's not very user friendly because only the ids of the sentences linked are displayed. That's because we can't afford to display the actual texts of the sentences otherwise it would make the page much slower to load.
• The profile has been revamped, finally!

What next

• Page for moderators (perhaps trusted users too) to "merge" duplicate sentences.

Tatoeba update (Mar 12th, 2011)

Enjoy! :D

What's new

• Linking does not redirect to the sentence page anymore but is done "in place". Except for those who have Javascript disabled.
• Trusted users are now be able to see the link and unlink buttons for ANY sentence. The feature is still limited to trusted users.
• There's now a page where browse each users entire history of contributions. You can find a link to this page from the user profile ("Logs"). You can also reach the page by clicking on the contributors' username from the "Latest contributions" (on the homepage) or from the "Currently contributing" block (on the Members page).

What next

• Things that have been mentioned in the previous updates but haven't been done yet :P