Deutsch forum?

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:54 am

Finally I got my own link to work for me. My Marc Maron quote:

Whenever that one the given forms the end to make to blow upon maîs is
always this flaumigen, the white man, lucky Sprungstuecke, those to
eat are of reserve and to consider and for all like them. But
ingualmente he is always burned those, the supreme one it last with
lowest superficial, of which not ramify. They know, why nonramificano?
Nonramificano, because they have totality.

- "maîs" is French
- "flaumigen" and "Sprungstuecke" are German
- "nonramificano" is Italian
- "ingualmente" is Portuguese

Some of the intermediates had some really good phrases, but I'll leave youse to do it if you're actually interested.

philippeqc · Post by **philippeqc** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:18 pm

Well, its seems most people agree on the idea to have rooms for each of the language (spanish, french, german), or at least suport some variation of this idea. And the rest seems to think it would be quite entertaining to read such post throught an online translator.

The only question that remains is when can this be fixed?

-ph

Post by **Tank Program** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:28 pm

I'll put it on my todo list.

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:28 pm

Lucifer wrote:
z-man wrote:We don't have words for "free man", never needed them
TANSTAAFM?

come again, please ?

z-man: are you talking about politics, culture or stupidity (in german history)
I bet the term 'freier Bürger' or 'freier Mann' were used in the revolutions of 1848, 1919(?), [whenever the BRD was founded] and 1989/1990

lucifer, what was the french translation ?

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:05 pm

Walking Tree wrote:
Lucifer wrote:
z-man wrote:We don't have words for "free man", never needed them
TANSTAAFM?
come again, please ?
lucifer, what was the french translation ?

The French translation was perfect. I know enough french to determine that.

TANSTAAFM is a derivative of TANSTAAFL, or "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". You can figure out what the "M" means in this context...

Walking Tree · Post by **Walking Tree** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:28 pm

Lucifer wrote:The French translation was perfect. I know enough french to determine that.

and I might know enough french to figure out why it couldn't translate.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:34 pm

You might also know enough about pointing a mouse, clicking links, and typing through a keyboard to replicate the experiment.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:46 am

Walking Tree wrote:z-man: are you talking about politics, culture or stupidity (in german history)

Mainly that period about sixty years ago where we decided it would be a good idea to give up our personal freedom and trade it for world domination. Of course we do have words for "free", but quite often, if something is untranslatable (by humans, not a machine), it means that the concept does not exist in the target language's culture. I was playing with that concept.

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 1:06 am

Oscilloscope wrote:Lost in Translation

Worse: using translation software in reality. I found it through google by accident. Translating that page to English using Babelfish (which knows Dutch. Um, no, actually it doesn't) also creates a huge mess.