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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:31 pm
by stonemaybe
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!
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:34 pm
by balon!
Alynna Lis Eachann wrote:*sigh* I love Douglas Adams.
Seriously. *double sigh*
Heh.
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:44 pm
by stonemaybe
I think it should be past tense now, shouldn't it? I'm sure he passed away last year.
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:48 pm
by balon!
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.
Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:50 pm
by stonemaybe
It was the Vogons wasn't it?
edit - crap! does that mean I need that witness thingy too then?
Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 5:29 am
by Ramen
ravel: cool!!!
Surely I will sign and will also inform Hami,who is - like me- german
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:25 am
by matrixman
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.)
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:27 am
by lucimay
urk. i dunno. i don't speak German!!!
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:32 am
by matrixman
Okay, I really do feel like an idiot now. It isn't translating my words. Did I miss something blindingly obvious?
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:41 am
by lucimay
hmmmm. it didn't translate me either that time.
poo.
sorry. dunno what up with it
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:58 am
by Loredoctor
Matrixman wrote:Did I miss something blindingly obvious?
You can't read German.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:21 am
by matrixman
Aha! It's your doing, Herr Loremeister!
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:23 am
by Loredoctor
Matrixman wrote:Aha! It's your doing, Herr Loremeister!
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:55 am
by Ramen
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
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
(and you accept it nevertheless)
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:37 am
by variol son
My spanish tutor said she would kill us if we ever used Babelfish as it's crap.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:43 am
by Loredoctor
variol son wrote:My spanish tutor said she would kill us if we ever used Babelfish as it's crap.
Yeah, it is.
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:14 am
by ravel
Lucimay wrote:ok...here's the coolest thing.
Sie können einen gesamten Pfosten und Pfosten auf Brett des loseen Fadens übersetzen!!!
wooo hoooo i'm spickin german!!!
oh help, I just piddled in my pants! this sentence is such a funny translation
thank you for all your positive feedbacks and especially ramen and syl for the first posting in my forum.
ravel
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:22 pm
by Ramen
variol son wrote:My spanish tutor said she would kill us if we ever used Babelfish as it's crap.
*agree*
ravel: gern geschehen
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:53 am
by lucimay
Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:03 am
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?
