spoonerisms de la façon française (sp?)

[trochee]

contrèpetrie (also possibly: contrèpeterie, since google has many more hits for "contrepeterie", also possibly without accent grave): "spoonerism", at least according to my recent dictionary purchase.

This word is thanks to imtboo, who explained that the pair toutes mes felicitations and toutes mes ficelles de caleçon are a contrèpetrie.

Interestingly, Babelfish attempts to translate contrèpeterie as contrepetery (but not contrèpetrie, which it leaves as is), but Google doesn't think "contrepetery" exists, and I am inclined to agree. This suggests that there is some hand-coded morphology rule in the Fr->En SYSTRAN engine that maps -erie to -ery regardless of whether the word is lexically available.

In other (related) news, I have worked out how to use the "Compose" key under SCIM and KDE to get accented characters.

Comments

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh. knowledge-based MT is exactly that kind of hacking.

Statistical MT is much harder but may be more scalable in the long run. On the other hand, the state-of-the-art is way behind the hand-coded MT.