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Subject: Re: what?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 14:06:04 02/17/99

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On February 17, 1999 at 14:18:31, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 17, 1999 at 14:09:28, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>
>>Hey guys!
>>
>>For the benefit of us illiterate Americans, would you mind posting a translation
>>when a language other than English is used?
>From:
>http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?
>
>Here is the {shaky} translation:
>" Metaphysician you are ". " It is that not like ". Sight, brother, déjate of
>huevadas and take hold to the flight that Italian program only within reach of
>the happy few. Walking! Enrique Fernando Enrique and Fernando, hello! Bradley is
>splendid also to clarify a metaphysician you are: in order to have to point of
>view you have to transcend your point of view... but in its serious corner, the
>players governs the slow pieces... Greetings, Jorge To put metaphysician when it
>needs two days to fulfill the 50 does not stop being a disease of the core. In
>any case, Don Jorge, welcome to the Quijote, that that one yes is splendid. By
>the way, why malgastamos as much life with the programs? And that that I already
>have fulfilled the 50,:) A hug, Enrique
>
>The actual authors will get a laugh out of this translation,

You bet! :)

> I think.
>A funny excercise is to take a sentence and translate
>English->French->English->French...
>For a while until a homeostasis is reached.  Sometimes, the output is *really*
>funny.

You got it from Altavista Translate. :)

They are absolutely great. I tried them with German posts and their translations
are really hilarious. Everybody should try, I mean it.

Will: the absurd output of Altavista proves again that some things can not be
translated, at least not by me. Anyway, you didn't miss much.

Enrique




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