ooops. i left the quotation marks from the nopsebashawop phrase, which was lifted from
the originator.
the systransoft site i find amusing not so much for syntax, which as you mention as for
its absolutely non-contextual (i mean, we're talking free word-processing software
here,
not literature) translation of each word. one needs to live, i think, in a place as
full of southern baptists as arkansas (or to, as it seems you may have been, involved
in
legal manouevering) to fully appreciate the wonders of this sort of thinking.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dale Caldwell: there is at http://systransoft.com a site which will produce
> something not too far from a translation of some of the world's best web
> pages. when it fails as a translation, it usually succeeds as comedy.
> Ralph Hoehn: OK, OK, translation is underway. We expect coherent results by
> about April (given that the participants have a couple of other things to
> keep on the boil in parallel ;-). "systransoft" is not bad at all if you have
> some knowledge of German already and can unravel some of the messes they get
> into through a bit of quick retro-translation. It made a right cock-up of
> some court reporting in the translation of which I was involved though ...
> downright dangerous!
>
> DC: it might use a word like nopsebashawop, which would be simply nonsense.
> RH: Wait a minute, buster, nopsing cannot possibly be considered simply
> nonsense!! The legal eagle brain of the originator was clearly in high gear
> for extended periods of time to create it!
>
> :-)
>
> Ralph
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