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Subject: Re: Anybody know Indonesian?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:14:27 06/11/02

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On June 11, 2002 at 16:12:20, John Merlino wrote:

>On June 11, 2002 at 15:21:10, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On June 11, 2002 at 14:42:25, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>Some of you may remember this message from my "amusing e-mails" post:
>>>
>>>I like the chess problem. Such as how to kill a black king
>>>until to 3 ways? What the chessmaster 8000 can to do about
>>>the problem?, Because  i have The chessmaster 5500 can't do
>>>it, can do it but 4 ways or 5 ways not 3 ways.Thank's
>>>
>>>My question was "does anybody know what this guy is asking"? Some interesting
>>>theories were put forth, but it seemed obvious to me that this person was using
>>>a translator program. Well, as it turns out, he responded to me in his native
>>>language, Indonesian!
>>>
>>>-------------
>>>Saya dari negara Indonesia (Jakarta), maaf saya kurang bisa menulis dalam bahasa
>>>english.  Saya punya masalah tentang bagaimana menentukkan langkah yang paling
>>>sedikit untuk mematikan raja, jika saya misalnya problem seperti ini : bahwa
>>>dianalisa posisi raja hitam akan mati dalam tiga langkah ke depan dimana posisi
>>>putih melangkah terlebih dulu. Tapi setelah saya masukkan ke software
>>>chessmaster 5500, dia menganalisa mati dalam lima langkah. Bagaimana pendapat
>>>anda apakah ada software yang bisa menyelesaikan masalah saya.
>>>-------------
>>>
>>>The first sentence, I can guess at. I'm pretty sure it is "I'm from Indonesia,
>>>and I do not know English". So, if any of you know (or know anybody who knows)
>>>Indonesian, could you please translate this for me? Feel free to reply via
>>>personal e-mail to jmerlino@ubisoft.com....
>>>
>>>Sounds (reads) like a beautiful language, no?
>>
>>
>>Saya dari negara Indonesia (Jakarta), maaf saya kurang bisa menulis dalam bahasa
>>english.
>>"I am from country of Indonesia of Jakarta, my forgiveness can more not very
>>well write in language English."
>>
>>Saya punya masalah tentang bagaimana menentukkan langkah yang paling sedikit
>>untuk mematikan raja, jika saya misalnya problem seperti ini : bahwa dianalisa
>>posisi raja hitam akan mati dalam tiga langkah ke depan dimana posisi putih
>>melangkah terlebih dulu.
>>"I have the problem about how step MENENTUKKAN that most A little to disarm
>>king, if I am for example this problem : That Analysed by position of dying ,
>>black king in three steps to front where position White step earlier."
>>
>>Tapi setelah saya masukkan ke software chessmaster 5500, dia menganalisa mati
>>dalam lima langkah. Bagaimana pendapat anda apakah ada software yang bisa
>>menyelesaikan masalah saya.
>>"But after I enter to software CHESSMASTER 5500, he analyses to die in five
>>steps. How is opinion You are what has software that can settle my problem."
>>
>>He believes that there is a mate in 3, but ChessMaster 5500 stops after
>>announcing a mate in 5.  Perhaps we could ask him for the position:
>>
>>
>>Can you please save the position for us to a file and email it?  We can then
>>find out if it is a checkmate in 3 or really a checkmate in 5 moves.
>>
>>"Anda silakan dapat menyelamatkan posisi untuk kami ke suatu arsip dan emel hal
>>itu? Kami kaleng kemudian tahu jika hal itu adalah suatu checkmate pada tahun 3
>>atau benar-benar suatu checkmate di dalam 5 gerakan."
>>
>>I used this: http://www.ewgate.com/ewtranslite.html
>
>You're a friggin' GOD, you know that, Corbit?

Things didn't go too well for Herod, after he got accolades like that.  Let's
just call it "google aware" for now.



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