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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 1999 23:51:21 -0700
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: For French readers: Nice article in 'LMI'
Message-ID:  <36FB2E69.FE47E543@softweyr.com>
References:  <199903241019.LAA03626@rt2.synx.com> <36F8FB3B.96F7E718@softweyr.com> <19990325213508.B259@marder-1.localhost>

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Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 07:48:27AM -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
> > Remy Nonnenmacher wrote:
> > >
> > > FYI
> > >
> > > http://www.lmi.fr/c12565ef002d29ae/996ef68a9fd10db3c125669e00311b6a/d1e004841bd6acf0c125673800518e6a?OpenDocument
> > >
> > > For English readers: Summary:
> >
> > A nice article.  Non French readers can get a somewhat stilted
> > translation from Babelfish.  Browse http://babelfish.altavista.com/
> > paste the above URL into the box, select French to English translation,
> > and fire.
> >
> 
> I tried that Wes and it produced a very readable result. The
> translation included a couple of sentences that really made me
> chuckle though....
> 
>   "Even Microsoft prefers it with Windows NT to manage its service
>   of Hotmail electronic mail, which counts several million subscribers"

I think that should've been "prefers it to".  Babelfish comes up with
some real weiners sometimes.  ;^)

>   "Most powerful and most stable. And it is not the opinion of the
>   only bearded and hairy system administrators swearing only by the
>   Unix free"

Hey, that's ME they're talking about there...

-- 
       "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                 Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr                      wes@softweyr.com


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