I would assume that someone with direct access to the database could do a find-and-replace, finding \x{200B} and replacing it with a space and then finding all multiple consecutive spaces and replacing them with 1 space.

Maybe, TRANG could do that for us.

Maybe something similar to this could also be done for all future edits or contributions in real time.

See...

https://github.com/Tatoeba/tatoeba2/issues/183
allow multiple audio files per sentence (issue opened Apr 8, 2014)

1,021 such sentences in last Saturday's exported data.

Here they all are for anyone who is interested.

Sentences with \x{200B}
http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/temp/200B.zip

Here are the English sentences with \x{200B}.
I marked them with " * ".
Note that some of them have 2 consecutive ones.
I already changed 3 of my own.


[#5699178] Stop crying and get your act together * . (\N)

[#3120690] Without the idea of * * God there is no clever answer to the question about the reason for the existence of the universe. (\N)

[#6146303] * I haven't gone to the doctor in over ten years. (al_ex_an_der)

[#1699577] So let's be friends and enjoy our very cooperative community as well as the richness and diversity of languages * * and their cultures! (al_ex_an_der)

[#1866845] The 26th of September is the European Day of Languages. The Council of Europe wants to draw attention to the multilingual heritage of Europe, to foster the evolution of multilingualism in society and to encourage citizens to learn languages * * . Tatoeba, as an easy-to-use learning tool and an active community, promotes the study and appreciation of languages in a very practical way. (al_ex_an_der)

[#3300092] The form of language * * changes over time. (AlanF_US)

[#9767038] It was Pope Gelasius I who had the idea of * * establishing Valentine's Day, the feast of lovers (every February 14). (AmarMecheri)

[#7034894] Berber is a family of languages * * spoken in North Africa. (Amazigh_Bedar)

[#7034893] Tamazight is a family of languages * * spoken in North Africa. (Amazigh_Bedar)

[#1442465] Seven thousand languages are spoken all over the world, * * and taken together, they comprise the largest collection of human knowledge that has ever existed. (Balamax)

[#8189817] Berber as a family contains several languages * * including: Kabyle, Shawi, Mozabit, Rifain, Zennati, Tergi and Chleuh. (belkacem77)

[#8354940] I am sad that many languages * * will disappear. (belkacem77)

[#8354923] Nature has created so many languages * * that no human could possibly learn them all. (belkacem77)

[#9776973] Hanako's favorite anime is "Night on the Galactic Railroad * ". (DJ_Saidez)

[#9776972] Inuktitut * is a difficult language. (DJ_Saidez)

[#6687278] Our grandfather learned five languages * * as a child. (Eccles17)

[#6687277] Our grandfather learned five languages * when he was growing up. (Eccles17)

[#9120554] North Korea * is located near Japan. (fluffyUser)

[#6990507] * Demander can also mean “to wonder” in French, if you put the word me in front of it. So, for example, the expression “Je me demande quand le film commence” means, “I wonder when the movie begins.” (Hybrid)

[#8604717] High volumes of patients needing hospitalization at the same time can overwhelm health care services, leading to a shortage of beds or attending staff. The end result can be inadequate treatment and more deaths. * (Hybrid)

[#8604704] Public health officials say that while the health care system is holding up, it is under extraordinary strain that will likely worsen if drastic containment measures announced Sunday by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte don't start having an effect. * * (Hybrid)

[#8626727] Why do women paint their nails? * (Hybrid)

[#2915493] This ticket is made * * out of paper. (j0rd4nkzf)

[#8209929] I want to learn languages * * faster. (josivangoncalves)

[#8199656] My 7 favorite languages * * are English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese. (josivangoncalves)

[#3366838] All History shows: idioms of dominant states often lead to the disappearance of the languages of the dominated states. Greek engulfed the Phrygian. Latin killed the Iberian and Gallic. Currently, 25 languages * * are disappearing every year! Understand one thing: I'm not fighting against English, I fight for diversity. An Armenian proverb wonderfully summarizes my thought: "The more languages you know, the more you are a person." (Malape)

[#3416377] Americans wanted to impose the idea that a book or a movie should be considered the same as any commercial object. For they understood that besides the army, diplomacy and trade there is also a cultural war. It's a battle they intend to win both for noble reasons -- the United States has always felt that its values * * are universal -- and less noble ones: the education of minds is the best way to sell American products. Consider that cinema represents their most important export, ahead of weapons, aerospace or computers! Hence their desire to impose English as a global language. Even if we can observe for the last two decades a decline in their influence. (Malape)

[#3366841] The more languages * * you know, that many times you're a person. (Malape)

[#6477717] * I left out the last question because it was too difficult. (nickyeow)

[#3553386] All students have to learn both national languages * * in mainland Finland. (Objectivesea)

[#10071322] After getting a taste from selling old clothes at a high price on the flea market * , she finally set up her recycling shop. (tsp_2)

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http://bit.ly/nativespeakers

7,733,005 native-speaker-owned sentences in 163 languages by these over 7,000 identified native speakers.


** Stats - 2021-09-04 - Esperanto Contributors **

http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/stats-2021-09-04-epo.html

** Milestone Passed **

This past week, we passed the "600,000 English sentences with audio" milestone.

Listen to and translate the newest sentences by using this link.

https://tatoeba.org/en/sentence...&has_audio=yes

If you are interested in translating English sentences with audio, you may want to bookmark the following page, after choosing your own native language.

http://goo.gl/zP1V2i

Currently, the Tatoeba Project has 846,688 audio files.

** Translate English Sentences with Audio Using Pre-determined Searches **

http://goo.gl/zP1V2i

I've updated this page.

Note that there are now 592,229 English sentences with audio.

** Searching - Find native-speaker-owned sentences linked to English with Audio **

http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/search-...ith-audio.html

This is a list of clickable pre-set advanced searches.

Could you put the URLs of the 2 flags you think look too simlar?

Are these the 2 flags you are talking about?

https://tatoeba.org/img/flags/yid.svg
Yiddish

https://tatoeba.org/img/flags/hbo.svg
Ancient Hebrew

Perhaps, one way to efficiently do this would be to have an icon next to the mail icon at the top of the page that links to "comments on my sentences," and then have a red number appear the same way it does for unread messages. There would need to be some way for members to click something on a comment saying they have seen the comment, I suppose.

I think the programmer(s) of that part of the website assumed that people would be making requests for exact matches of words and not variations of the words or other words in the same word families.. In other words, they likely thought that when someone requested "stair", they wanted a sentence example with the singular word "stair" rather than the plural "stairs." I don't think it's a bug. I think they planned it that way.

I took the numbers from these pages.
https://tatoeba.org/en/vocabula..._sentences/eng

That set of pages counts only exact matches.
This kind of search: =spot
Also, maybe orphan sentences are ignored.
I made the query the default "fuzzy" search and also included orphan sentences in the query.

This is the kind of thing that I thought might be useful.

http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/requested.html
Requested English Words - Sorted by NGSL & Frequency

I manually downloaded all the English word request pages, and harvested the data I needed to create this. If the data were easily accessible, similar lists could be created for other languages, too.

What I meant was the "requested vocabulary" list.
This: https://tatoeba.org/en/vocabula..._sentences/eng

It would also be nice if we could download these vocabulary requests.

At least for the English, there are so many very, very low frequency words on the list that it would be nice to be able to compare the list with a word frequency list, and focus on adding sentences that included the higher-frequency requested words that more people would find useful.

** Orphan Sentence Stats **

http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/orphans.html

I've included links for those interested in browsing and adopting sentences in their own native languages.

[EDIT 2021-05-25] I apologize for posting this information. I didn't think it would start an argument. It was just a by-product of gathering the data for http://bit.ly/nativespeakers . I thought some members would find this interesting and perhaps encourage some to look at sentences and adopt them.

Sorry.

I've updated my page of links to include these links and also removed the clickable link to lingocracy.com that AlanF_US reported as being offline.

Here is the short, easy-to-remember URL.
http://bit.ly/tatoebalinks

** Stats **

1,186,073 sentences have OK ratings.
That's about 12% of our sentences.

These 30 members have made most of these ratings.

CK (831885)
PaulP (230521)
Guybrush88 (27736)
shekitten (8081)
Pfirsichbaeumchen (8047)
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Tepan (6218)
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MarijnKp (4522)
Selena777 (4349)
jegaevi (4345)
small_snow (4059)
deyta (3916)
Gulo_Luscus (3461)
Thanuir (3383)
alexmarcelo (2627)
tulin (2515)
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dotheduyet1999 (1956)
Pandaa (1909)
driini (1713)
Wezel (1481)
odexed (1475)
Raizin (1397)
Elsofie (1233)
bunbuku (985)
raggione (942)
Aiji (942)
umano (809)
Bilmanda (775)

I did this for another purpose and thought that other members might like to know this information.