Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:18:06 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: remy@synx.com Cc: wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: For French readers: Nice article in 'LMI' Message-ID: <36FB890E.2178904E@uk.radan.com> References: <199903261308.OAA12081@rt2.synx.com>
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Remy Nonnenmacher wrote: > > On 25 Mar, Wes Peters wrote: > > 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. ;^) > > Right. "... prefers it [FreeBSD] to ....". Babelfish have problems with > anything more complicated than 'peter heats apples' ;). > It wasn't the grammar that amused me, I could read through that, it was the meaning; "Microsoft prefers it to NT" > > > >> "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... > > Ah, so it was you in the picture that Greg Lehey posted a few days ago (in the thread about dressing up in Daemon costumes) ;-) > > Hum... I'm afraid... Yes. It would have been "...is not only the > opinion of sysadmin gurus....." (cultural context: gurus = hairy = old > student = uncontrolable/revolutionary = early-adopters = etc.....) > Again it wasn't the grammar, it was the stereotype; bearded, hairy sysadmins proclaiming "computing is a religion, and Unix is the only true faith". > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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