I like Google Translate. It's one of the few parts of Google's online
empire that doesn't get on my nerves.
I hope you DON'T manage to implode it.
On 1/21/2026 3:00 PM, Bob W PDML wrote:
Yea, well, don’t bet your life on Google just yet.
spadix (genitive spadicis) is Latin for chestnut-brown.
The Latin for spade is pala, or rutrum.
My invented, and probably incorrect, species name meaning brown-headed has
obviously confused Google (machinatio servilis indoctus), though sadly not to
the point where it implodes and puts an end to its misery.
On 21 Jan 2026, at 19:02, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
Google Translate says it's "A spade-headed duck bringing dinner"
... after you tell it that the phrase is Latin instead of the Indonesian it
detects ???
On 1/20/2026 2:28 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I suspect that this is a multilingual pun, but my google fu isn't up to the
task of deciphering it.
Anas is a type of duck.
My guess is capiti has to do with hat or head.
I did figure out Mike's "golden eye" reference.
Looking up the heron, I think it might be a grey
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gray_Heron/id
by contrast here's a great blue
https://www.massaudubon.org/nature-wildlife/birds/great-blue-herons
And it's not a green
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Green_Heron/id
judging by this, it's about 2' tall
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/55051499695/in/album-72177720331552117
On 2026-01-20 00:27, Bob W PDML wrote:
Anas spadicicapiti cenamferanta, I believe
On 20 Jan 2026, at 08:03, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/55051403854/in/album-72177720331552117
It was my boss's birthday yesterday, we went on a walk at Heaps Peak Arboretum
and then to Lake Gregory in Crestline. There were a lot of birds at the Lake.
Unfortunately I didn't get any decent ones of the cormorant.
I think that like most of this list, several of the birds are coots. I
recognized the Mallards, not sure what sort of heron (great blue maybe?)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72177720331552117/
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