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2009/2/22 Christian Boitet <[email protected]>:
> Really "no comment"?            22/2/09
> That really calls for some strong comments...
> At 4:57 +0000 21/02/09, FERENC KOVACS wrote:
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> http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/political-pictures-correct.jpg
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> Ferenc Kovacs
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> alias Frank
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> Genezistan
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> "Starting all over"
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> +44 7770654068 (Vodafone)
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> http://www.firkasz.com/news.php?item.58.8
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> and
> http://translationjournal.net/journal/46meaning.htm 
> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2003546&l=1e704&id=1107563373
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> 5 St. Mary's Place
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> Main comment: this a hoax of very bad taste, no translation there.
>         Picture send by FK:
> http://punditkitchen.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/political-pictures-correct.jpg
> Message shown:
>         "DEATH TO ALL JUICE"
> Comment in a balloon, added to the photograph of demonstrators:
>         "Of course it's correct. I translated it online."
>         Comments (rather obvious):
> 1) that e-mail was from Ferenc Kovacs was of extremely bad taste, or worse,
> and should probably have been moderated by the list manager (if there is
> one).
> 2) "juice" and "jews" (with the usual meanings) are homophones only in
> English.
> 3) no language seems to have one single word which is ambiguous with these 2
> meanings.
>         Conclusion:
> 1) This is a hoax. Translation (HT, MT) cannot be involved.
> 2) The only way to produce that kind of output using MT would be to speak it
> IN ENGLISH, use an ASR, not correct the output, translate it in another
> language L, and back to English. That evidently does not correspond to any
> translational situation.
> Further comments on the source of that hoax:
> The picture seems to come from
> http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32311_Death_to_All_Juice
> There is no balloon on that picture.
> It seems some "MT hater" has added the balloon later...
>
> Best, Xan
> PS References to this picture and example of rough MT and its post-edition.
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> A lot of discussion can be found on the web on that expression.
> Some sites ask internauts to signal such unacceptable pseudo-jokes.
> We should help them.
> Concerning that picture, I could not find an occurrence with the "MT hater"
> balloon.
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> From http://www.reallyvirtual.com/death-to-all-juice/
> Death to All Juice
> Posted on February 8, 2009, 4:38 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under Life.
>
> When I posted this picture of a supposedly Muslim guy in New York holding a
> sign saying "Death to all Juice", I did not know that the image was not a
> solo incident, but part of a series - the almost-meme even had a tshirt
> dedicated to it!
>
> Last month, a researcher friend from MIT forwarded me a very similar picture
> of the same placard but with a different protester, more muslim looking this
> time, and told me that the images were being passed around in MIT and
> Stanford over email, eliciting the usual muslim hate comments that we are
> all so used to.
> A google search told me that most of the people were ridiculing the
> illiterate 'moon-bat mozzies' in the picture for not being able to spell
> (here, here and here), while a Jihad Watch commenter attributed it to be the
> work of a certain 'Jouseff Al-Khattab, with some clever use of language
> 'calling for genocide without getting busted for hate speech'. A certain
> commenter from http://vigilantsquirrelbrigade.blogspot.com/ claimed to have
> taken the 'hilarious pic of illiterate NY moonbat' and claimed to have
> witnessed the guy getting arrested - according to the squirrel, the incident
> occurred in December.
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> Just to show the result of a free "MT web server" producing an instant
> "translation" -- in this case a French translation by Google Translate.
> Of course it is not a good translation, but if I use it as "pretranslation",
> I get a good one in 7 minutes. Note abreviations ("pic" for "picture") and
> familiar words (mozzies, lune-bat).
> A human translator using no help and translating rapidly could probably
> spend 15-20 minutes on that task (normal, slow rate would be 4/5*60=48
> minutes). Translation memories would probably not help much.
> In this case, MT used for post-edition reduced the human time by a factor of
> about 2 to 3.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------- Google Translate result (MT)
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> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> From http://www.reallyvirtual.com/fr/death-to-all-juice/
>   Lorsque j'ai posté cette image d'un homme prétendument musulmans à New
> York la tenue d'une pancarte «Mort à tous les jus», je ne savais pas que
> l'image n'est pas un incident en solo, mais une partie d'une série - le
> quasi-meme a même eu un consacré à ce tshirt!
>
> Le mois dernier, un chercheur du MIT ami m'a transmis un tableau similaire
> de la même affiche, mais avec un autre manifestant, plus musulmane cherche
> ce temps, et m'a dit que les images ont été transmises dans le MIT et
> Stanford en plus de courriels, de susciter l'habitude muslim commentaires
> haineux que nous sommes tous tellement habitués.
> Une recherche google m'a dit que la plupart des gens étaient illettrés
> ridiculiser "lune-bat mozzies' dans l'image pour ne pas être en mesure de
> préciser (ici, ici et ici), tandis que le Jihad Watch commenter attribuée à
> des travaux d'un certains «Jouseff Al-Khattab, avec une certaine utilisation
> intelligente de la langue» appelant à un génocide sans avoir busted pour les
> discours de haine ». Un commentateur de
> http://vigilantsquirrelbrigade.blogspot.com/ ont affirmé avoir pris le
> «hilarious pic d'analphabètes NY moonbat et ont affirmé avoir vu le gars se
> arrêtés - en fonction de l'écureuil, l'incident a eu lieu en Décembre.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------- after post-edition (7 minutes for 200 words)
> --------------------
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Lorsque j'ai posté cette image d'un homme prétendument musulman à New York
> tenant une pancarte disant « DEATH TO ALL JUICE » (« Mort à tous les
> jus/Juifs) », je ne savais pas que cette photo n'était pas un incident
> isolé, mais une partie d'une série - quasiment la même a même eu un
> tee-shirt consacré à cela !
>
> Le mois dernier, un ami chercheur du MIT m'a transmis une photo similaire de
> la même affiche, mais avec un autre manifestant, paraissant plus musulman
> cette fois-ci, et m'a dit que les images étaient transmises au MIT et à
> Stanford par des courriels, suscitant les commentaires haineux musulmans
> habituels auxquels nous sommes tous tellement habitués.
>
> Une recherche sur Google m'a indiqué que la plupart des gens ridiculisaient
> les "mozzies (‰musulmans) lunatiques" illettrés sur la photo, pour ne pas
> être en mesure d'épeler (ici, ici et ici), tandis qu'un commentateur du
> Jihad Watch l'attribuait à un certain Jouseff Al-Khattab, avec une certaine
> utilisation intelligente de la langue « appelant à un génocide sans être
> inquiété pour des discours de haine ». Un commentateur de
> http://vigilantsquirrelbrigade.blogspot.com/ a affirmé avoir pris la photo
> de ces « désopilants lunatiques analphabètes de NY » et ont affirmé avoir vu
> le gars se faire arrêter - d'après l'écureuil (?), l'incident a eu lieu en
> décembre.
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> Other references on that picture
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> #
> Little Green Footballs - 'Death to All Juice'
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> 29 Dec 2008 ... little green footballs - headquarters of the lizardoid army.
> littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32311_Death_to_All_Juice - 29k - En cache -
> Pages similaires
> #
> DEATH TO ALL JUICE : pics
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> 30 Dec 2008 ... The Reddit headline is just "DEATH TO ALL JUICE", there is
> nothing implied in that. Do you mean the original implication in your own
> head? ...
> www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7mfpq/death_to_all_juice/ - 363k - En cache -
> Pages similaires
> #
> Jihad Watch: Death to All Juice
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> "Silence I k_i_l_l you! I kill all the Juice! Death to Juice everywhere! And
> Pepsi Cola--death to the Pepsi Cola!" Achmed the Dead Terrorist ...
> www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024131.php - 164k - En cache - Pages similaires
> #
> Jihad Watch: "Death to all juice": Calling for genocide with ...
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> 31 Dec 2008 ... When I posted this picture Monday of a Muslim in New York
> holding a sign saying, "Death to All Juice," a lot of people took it as the
> ...
> www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024163.php - 27k - En cache - Pages similaires
> #
> Results of images for death to all juice
>  - Signal images--Signaler les images suivantes comme étant choquantes.
> http://www.reallyvirtual.com/el/death-to-all-juice/
> http://memetee.com/Welcome/Entries/2008/12/30_Death_To_All_Juice.html
> http://jewhating.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/death-to-all-juice/
> http://chickenmafia.com/send/send/1182
> #
> "Death To All Juice" - The Spine
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> Maybe he was hasty when he initially called for the death of all Juice, but
> he later modified it to only call for the killing of the Juice who are
> involved ...
> communities.canada.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2008/12/29/quot-death-to-all-juice-quot.aspx
> - 39k - En cache - Pages similaires
> #
> BackyardConservative: Death to All Juice
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> 29 Dec 2008 ... Death to All Juice. Why do they hate us? This is in
> Manhattan.Via lgf. In other news, Hamas brings back crucifixion during
> Christmas week. ...
> backyardconservative.blogspot.com/2008/12/death-to-all-juice.html - 21k - En
> cache - Pages similaires
> #
> Rantings of a Sandmonkey » Death to all Juice!
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> 30 Dec 2008 ... 31 Responses to "Death to all Juice!" ... How could anyone
> hate juice? Maybe he's talking about V8 or something. Anyways, we all need
> to ...
> www.sandmonkey.org/2008/12/30/death-to-all-juice/ - 68k - En cache - Pages
> similaires
> #
> Death to All Juice - Sohaib Athar
> death-to-all-juice-shirt. death-to-all-juice-4. Death to All Juice ...
> death-to-all-juice-1. Maintenant, si j'avais plus de temps pour écrire, ...
> www.reallyvirtual.com/fr/death-to-all-juice/ - 45k - En cache - Pages
> similaires
> #
> Death to All Juice [PIC]
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> Death to All Juice: Whoops! Might wanna know your enemy...DEATH TO ALL JUICE
> : pics.
> buzzfeed.com/lindseyweber/death-to-all-juice-ru - 95k - En cache - Pages
> similaires
> #
> P1180506 pictures from current events photos on webshots
>  - [ Traduire cette page ]
> Of course the reference to juice isnt specific, it obviously refers to all
> pulverised fruit products. ... no one could claim that he wants to actually
> kill ALL Juice. ... he was only taught to spell 'death'. cant blame the
> mullah. ...
> news.webshots.com/photo/2298296970103726530OBKYUv - 70k - En cache - Pages
> similaires
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