Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:54:30 -0300 From: Dexter J <lamealameadingdongnopsamlamelame.org> Subject: Re: Newsgroup charter? (Was: Re: winterbanden met velgen)
Salutations: MH wrote: > > Please, Dexter J, you disappoint me.... Absolutely agreed - machine translators sux badly brother MH. However - for those of us with limited Lang skills (perl, actionscript, javascript, XSSI, DHTML, Postscript, REXX - etc) they can work just well enough to get the point of something.. Certainly not good enough for business use - but OK for NG posts.. Bablefish got some of the important bits - 'SAAB flagellants like us' - 'here is a free translator I use'. It falls apart badly on the gag line about advertising winter tires without AERO rims - what the heck, it's free and online. I ended up suggesting this service as it translated Dutch (although not well I'm sure): http://www.worldlingo.com/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html Interestingly - I gather the problem really is from english out to other languages rather than other languages in to english and that is why for many years French was the preferred language of diplomacy.. Not as many nuances built into it, very formal.. Guess all that when to heck with possibly my favourite silly quote from the Iraqi folly: .. from French's Mustard in response to Boycott France movement: ".. we at the French's Company wish to put an end to statements that our product is manufactured in France. There is no relationship, nor has there ever been a relationship, between our mustard and the country of France. Indeed, our mustard in manufactured in Rochester, NY. The only thing we have in common is that we are both yellow". .. and just for the irony of it all - the machine translation in French: ".. nous au souhait de Company de French's pour mettre un terme aux rapports que notre produit est fabriquÈ en France. Il n'y a aucun rapport, ni il jamais y a eu un rapport, entre notre moutarde et le pays de la France. En effet, notre moutarde dans manufacturÈ ý Rochester, NY. La seule chose que nous avons en commun est que nous sommes tous deux jaunissons." and back again for the laughs.. ".. us with the wish of Company de French' S to put a term at the reports/ratios which our product is manufactured in France. There is no report/ratio, nor it never was a relationship, between our mustard and the country of France. Indeed, our mustard in manufactured in Rochester, NY. The only thing that we have in common is that we are both yellow." .. See? It does get enough of it to smell the lunacy .. -- J Dexter - webmaster - http://www.dexterdyne.org/ all tunes - no cookies no subscription no weather no ads no news no phone in - RealAudio 8+ Required - all the Time Radio Free Dexterdyne Top Tune o'be-do-da-day Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns http://www.dexterdyne.org/888/081.RAM
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