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Dear listmembers -
Pantagruel is alive, and his companion Panurge has apparently got a job
position by Google, where he turns any text from English into French, and
vice versa.
By downloading the quarterly statistics for my own website yesterday came a
bunch of new "hosts" to a light. It is Search Engines, who place robot
translations of various pages on their own server (without permission from
the author!).
The horror of these translating robotters give me the creeps - and a good
and heartily laugh. I wish you all a happy new year - with some exclusive
quotations from the translations of some of my pages:
On "translate.google.com" did I find a complete translation from my French
original of "The 15 Joys of the Virgin Mary" - the first paragraph of the
Google translation is sufficient:
Doulce rams misericorde (sic!)
Doulce lady of mercy, mother of pity, fountain of all goods, which
portastes Ihésucrist ix. month in your invaluable blanks and the alaitastes
of your doulces udders, beautiful, Très doulce lady, IE shouts you thank
you, and requests from you that you vueillez to request vostre doulz Filz
that it vueille to teach me, and me doint in such manner food that IE can
come to its mercy and true confession and repentance of all sin them which
did onques. And ainssin, you luy prayers, beautiful, very doulce lady; and
IE me agenouilleray xv. time in front of vostre Benoit ymage as a lonnor
and remenbrance of the xv. ioies that you eustes vostre to shit ground
Filz. Ave Maria.
[The original text (for comparison, if needed) is found on:
http://www.chd.dk/tutor/15joys.html ]
Googles translation of the "Seven Requests to Our Lord" is not less amusing!
But to see that more than 100 visitors had seen Googles translation the
last month is not funny at all, especially when my name and copyright is
reproduced at the bottom, without any explanation from Google!
If anybody on the list has been the victim of this last product of the
"Nouveau moyen age" will it be of interest to hear from you (in private).
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The following robot translator calls itself "Voila"! - (www.tr.voila.fr)
You will probably understand why, by reading its smart translations of some
of my pages:
Saints are of course turned into streets (you can't fool a robot):
St. Michael Archangel = Rue Michel Archangel (!)
The Latin "ad" is read everywhere as advertisement, and at the ninth hour
does it go completely nuts:
Ad nonam (None) = Annonce de nonest (Aucun)
or at another occurrence:
None (Ad Nonam) = Aucun (l'Annonce Ne nonest) (!??)
This translation is beyond any comprehension:
Salve sancta facies = Sanctuaires de baume facies
[Maybe somebody can make sense of it, when compared to a translation below:]
Salve Regina = Baume Regina!
Incipit of psalm 6:
Domine ne in furore = Domine ne dans scandale (!)
Liturgical offices are provided with opening hours:
Office of the Dead = Bureau des Morts (!)
[The employees in the "Bureau" are probably busy with:]
Use of Le Mans = Utilisation d'Hommes (!)
Use of Angers = Utilisation de Colères (!)
Vive Panurge - et bonne nouvelle annee a tous!
Erik Drigsdahl
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DENMARK http://www.chd.dk
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