Talk:Information Awareness Office

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Request for article rating[edit]

I hereby request that this article get rated. Conservative Punk (talk) 09:46, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Likely problems[edit]

Translation in its various forms.

In many languages 'girl' is grammatically feminine - in German it is neuter.

Over the intercom

  • 'Shall we raise the tent?'
  • 'Yes, raze the tent.'
  • 'Send reinforcements, we are going to advance.' (look it up)

Creative mistranslation.

Bio-surveillance - we are presently seeing this in operation. Evidence extraction and link discovery - Eleanor Hibbert and John Smith.

The first sentence of the first Genisys paragraph probably needs slight tweaking (possibly merging '... [and] available database ...' with the next sentence. How do the Wayback Machine and 'a device made of paper and ink known as a book' cover the second point?

And analysts (human or computer) do tend to pick 'the wrong markers' in preference ('pictures with and without clouds' rather than 'tanks'). Anna Livia (talk) 19:38, 18 April 2020 (UTC)