Author: James Robertson
Date: 13:37:46 04/24/99
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On April 24, 1999 at 12:41:52, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On April 24, 1999 at 00:24:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On April 23, 1999 at 23:48:34, Dave Gomboc wrote: >> >>>I forgot to add, IT ISN'T POLITE TO YELL EITHER. >>> >>>Dave >> >>I ran it through Babel Fish, and what it says, if you can trust Babel Fish, is >>that the match should have been done on a 500 mhz Pentium III, and a word that >>the translator translated as "idiot" was used several times to describe he who >>would try to do a match on the hardware that will be used in this match. >> >>Notably absent was an offer to ship a Pentium III to the playing site. >> >>bruce > > Do not trust Babel Fish. Do not trust any automatic translation program, they >are good to have a laugh, but no more. > In fact José Hernández was offering to lend the organiser his pentium III. The >word "idiota" was not used to describe he who would try the match on that >hardware (G3). It was used to say that anybody (any "idiota") can see that >Hiarcs is much weaker on a G3/233 than on a PIII/550. > Note that I do not support José Hernández' point of view, I think it is up to >the organiser to choose on which hardware he will play Hiarcs. > But Babel Fish gave you a really poor translation this time, and I wanted to >point it out as it seems to say exactly the contrary of the original post. >Spanish grammar is very different from English, so the result is not surprising. >José. So I guess Mr. Hernandez's translation is actually fairly accurate.... James
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