Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Dialogue with Yeat`s poem

"...A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind...
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death."














Balance

A deserted longing amidst the dark
melted the image I had in mind
I weighted and found it floating
between essence and time
no haste among the living
a continous balance beyond my horizon.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Language orientation in Google Blog

When you publish in several languages on your blog, it seems that Google notices that. But today I noticed that there seem to be some glitches within the algorithm. This page had an ad in German but with the Greek footnote "Ads by Google". What does that tell us about their way of sorting it out? First they seem to be separate, the content and the footnote. Probably a more general language detection mode finds Greek letters and translates itself into Greek. And then the place of origin, of publication (Germany) determines the content language? Would be interesting to test? Has anyone got further insight or knowledge on that?

ἐγερθήσονται γὰρ ψευδόχριστοι

ἐγερθήσονται γὰρ ψευδόχριστοι καὶ ψευδοπροφῆται καὶ δώσουσι σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα πρὸς τὸ ἀποπλανᾶν, εἰ δυνατόν, καὶ τοὺς ἐκλεκτούς.(Κατὰ Μᾶρκον 13.14-23)