Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 14:00:02 +0100 (CET) From: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy@synx.com> To: wes@softweyr.com Cc: marko@uk.radan.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: For French readers: Nice article in 'LMI' Message-ID: <199903261308.OAA12081@rt2.synx.com> In-Reply-To: <36FB2E69.FE47E543@softweyr.com>
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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
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