Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Unfortunately in Russia, not even that is true. The wine is mediocre, and the meat is is terrible: ) - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 4:58 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] The future of English language - there and back again. > Reminds me of a (probably apocryphal) story of how a > computer translated the biblical verse "the spirit is willing > but the flesh is weak", from English, to Russian back to > English: "the wine is good but the meat is mediocre". > > :-) > > - Phong > > Marc Attinasi wrote: > > > > Wow, that is bad! I like this part especially (makes no sense to me) > > > > "long-time collectors know this, that it itself here around one > > expressed scarce equipment object acts - that so well like no longer > > available;" > > > > I wonder what would happen if it was translated back to Austrian :-) > > > > - marc > > > > On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 06:19 PM, Henry Ting wrote: > > > > > > > > Follow this link > > > :http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/ > > > ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=742570767&indexURL=1&photoDisplayType=2#eba > > > ylargephotohosting > > > ... > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html