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Ravel, willkommen und ist zutreffend!

Used babelfish for that and I really really REALLY don't think that is an accurate translation!

Steadfast, maybe, instead of zutreffend? Also, forgotten my imperative case! But I'm sure it's not 'ist' is it?

Ravel, willkommen und harren Sie aus steadfast!
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Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:*sigh* I love Douglas Adams.
Seriously. *double sigh*

Heh.
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I think it should be past tense now, shouldn't it? I'm sure he passed away last year.
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Stonemaybe wrote:I think it should be past tense now, shouldn't it? I'm sure he passed away last year.
Nah. He went into the Witness Protection program, and framed his own death.

He knew who was really responsible for the assisnation of Kennedy.
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It was the Vogons wasn't it?

edit - crap! does that mean I need that witness thingy too then?
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ravel: cool!!! :twisted: Surely I will sign and will also inform Hami,who is - like me- german
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That babelfish program looks excellent, Luci! But how accurate is it? Can I trust it not to make me look like an idiot? (Because I'm quite capable of idiocy on my own.)
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urk. i dunno. i don't speak German!!! :lol:
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Okay, I really do feel like an idiot now. It isn't translating my words. Did I miss something blindingly obvious?
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hmmmm. it didn't translate me either that time.

poo.


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Matrixman wrote:Did I miss something blindingly obvious?
You can't read German. :biggrin:
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Aha! It's your doing, Herr Loremeister!
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Matrixman wrote:Aha! It's your doing, Herr Loremeister!
:lol:
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Matrixman wrote:That babelfish program looks excellent, Luci! But how accurate is it? Can I trust it not to make me look like an idiot? (Because I'm quite capable of idiocy on my own.)
I made some experiences (normal sentences and some of TOT english-german).
I had a lot to laugh :D
simple sentences are translated nearly accurate (if you have some fantasy to interprete), but everything which was a lot more than a few words, ended in non-intelligible phrases.

Therefore, you can use babelfish cautiously, but I think, if anybody has a few experience with german, he(she) does better to translate himself (or herself :) ).
It can´t be worse, than a lot of these translations I do here, for example :biggrin: (and you accept it nevertheless)
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My spanish tutor said she would kill us if we ever used Babelfish as it's crap. :D
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variol son wrote:My spanish tutor said she would kill us if we ever used Babelfish as it's crap. :D
Yeah, it is.
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Lucimay wrote:ok...here's the coolest thing.


Sie können einen gesamten Pfosten und Pfosten auf Brett des loseen Fadens übersetzen!!! :biggrin:

wooo hoooo i'm spickin german!!! :lol:
oh help, I just piddled in my pants! this sentence is such a funny translation :lol:

thank you for all your positive feedbacks and especially ramen and syl for the first posting in my forum.

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variol son wrote:My spanish tutor said she would kill us if we ever used Babelfish as it's crap. :D

:biggrin: *agree*

ravel: gern geschehen :)
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and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio



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Post by Ramen »

Lucimay: you don´t need to blush. Better to try, than to do nothing. How else someone can learn if not by trying?
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