Re: Joris and Sandra 3

Gerfried Fuchs <use...@pinguin.pte.at> wrote:

>* Michael Schierl <sch...@gmx.de> [2001-12-05 21:00]:
>> yes, it would be better if i had provided an URL.
>> But i downloaded the Jargon file from www.jargon.org and did not know
>> that you can link to the entries directly. 
>
>You can link almost everything.  And the usenet laws especially aren't
>a thing that is /only/ availabe in the jargon files ;)  Ever tried
>google on "usenet laws"?

Yes, i got a page on www.bruhaha.de, saved it locally, but as it is in
German, I did not want to link to it. And it is a bit difficult to go
online while being somewhere far away from my telephone connection
with my laptop and reading/writing news. (They will be sent in the
evening...)

>> And I thought that this law should be known by most of the people here
>> as it is mentioned in the Jargon file.
>
>In here is an ascii art group and no usenet fanatic group ;))
>Although there are often crossposts from some fanatic groups....

Yes, you are right.

>> obAscii: "Webnocken"[1] (rotating...)
> Don't remind that special spam though I guess I've received it, too.

sorry. But i thought is was kind of "funny" spam, as it made me
laugh...

> There are usually more meanings that just one in a translation.
>Translating sex as Geschlecht isn't wrong at all. 

Ack.

>And the Nocken
>translation of cam is meant like in "Nockenwelle", cam shaft. 

but they should know "web cam", I think. 
BTW, once i tried to translate a paper about the tower of London using
Babelfish. It became "Der Aufsatz von London"! LOL.

> Local
>translation stuff ([1] & [2]) helps :)   babelfish is true fun but it
>offers only one solution.  <http://dict.leo.org/> is better to that
>respect.
>[2] <ftp://ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de/pub/misc/dicts/translate-0.5.tgz>
>[1] <ftp://ftp.math.uni-hamburg.de/pub/misc/dicts/en-de.ISO-8859-1.vok.tgz>

I'll take a look at these links.
as this is really off topic here, Followup-To: poster.

Michael

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