From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 26 5: 4:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from rt2.synx.com (tech.boostworks.com [194.167.81.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912E014F14 for ; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 05:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@synx.com) Received: from synx.com (rn.synx.com [192.1.1.241]) by rt2.synx.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA12081; Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:08:23 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199903261308.OAA12081@rt2.synx.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:00:02 +0100 (CET) From: Remy Nonnenmacher Reply-To: remy@synx.com Subject: Re: For French readers: Nice article in 'LMI' To: wes@softweyr.com Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36FB2E69.FE47E543@softweyr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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' ;). > >> "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... > 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.....) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message