Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 14:21:25 07/25/99
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On July 25, 1999 at 17:19:37, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On July 24, 1999 at 14:57:41, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On July 24, 1999 at 00:00:01, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>[big snip] >>> >>>I didn't find the case ambiguous at all. Of course, I saw the spanish version >>>that Fernando posted, ran it through freetranslation.com, and complained about >>>it being here. Perhaps this puts me further over on the slide rule than even >>>Bruce. >>> >>[big snip] >>>Dave >> >> I think that asking a post to be deleted based on an automatic translation is a >>poor choice. I do not have time to produce concrete examples on purpose, but it >>is easy to get something that means exactly the contrary of the original >>message. >>José. > >You bring up a good point. Especially without further contextual information, >an automatic translation might have led me astray. > >The translation wasn't the greatest, but it was clear it was a joke, the words >sex and Jew showed up, and given that a similar English posting by the same >author had just been discussed, I made the conclusion that it was the same joke, >just written in Spanish. > >Dave I forgot to mention that the response to my message was that others had already complained about the message, and it had been deleted (before the moderator read my email.) Dave
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