Benjamin Schultz wrote: >I like this phrasing. Any comments, Zefram, on the phrase "widely >spoken Human language"?
It's woolly. Pick a specific minimum number of native speakers and then we'll be getting into feasible territory. Wikipedia lists 35 languages with more than 30 million native speakers, which already makes it a time-consuming research project, so I suggest picking a much higher number. There's still the problem of varying transliterations into Latin script (the most popular language is Mandarin, of course), but transliterations are fairly well established for the very popular languages and there are a limited number of popular transliterations. You also still need to decide which senses of the English word "bear" you want to translate. -zefram
