16 Dec
1998
16 Dec
'98
1:45 p.m.
(mean?) humorous streak. They taught him a very
interesting form of
English - and colourful. Instead of saying "wow, excellent!", they
convinced him that the correct thing to say was "most spannerlike!", and
that a correct form of greeting was "Hello Sailor!". There were many more
interesting variations, and his English was eventually, suffice it to say,
unusual :)
Six words: "My hovercraft is full of eels"
Tim.
16 Dec
16 Dec
4:43 p.m.
Date sent: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 19:45:48 -0500
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Subject: RE: OT: Learning new words (was RE: "Single instance"
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How about "The wastepaper basket is yellow."
Paul Braun
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(mean?)
humorous streak. They taught him a very interesting form of
English - and colourful. Instead of saying "wow, excellent!", they
convinced him that the correct thing to say was "most spannerlike!", and
that a correct form of greeting was "Hello Sailor!". There were many more
interesting variations, and his English was eventually, suffice it to say,
unusual :)
Six words: "My hovercraft is full of eels"
Tim. 
17 Dec
17 Dec
3:55 a.m.
At 09:43 PM 12/16/98 -0600, Paul Braun wrote:
How about "The wastepaper basket is yellow."
I hope everyone knows about <http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/>.
There's also the Transmorgrafier at
<http://www.archive.org/~art/babelphone.html>
which runs your text through a series of translations, but it appears to be
broken. Babel chat, an interactive auto-translated chat room, is also down.
- John
Instead of saying "wow, excellent!", they
convinced him that the correct thing to say was "most spannerlike!"
Six words: "My hovercraft is full of eels" 
7:12 a.m.
I hope everyone knows about
<http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/>.
This is really getting off-topic. No one seems to care yet, but it's still
worth mentioning.
I really replied to ask if this is actual German (I have a feeling it's not).
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja!
...Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
It's Monty Python's worst joke in the world. See
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
There was a link from the Plan 9 site to the Monty Python script itself
(with some other worst jokes, including the Germans' attempts to retaliate
-- "Two peanuts were walking down the road..." -- but I'm not sure if the
link is still there. But you can read about a cool and small (though not
free) OS!
-- Derek
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18 Dec
18 Dec
2:38 a.m.
I really replied to ask if this is actual German (I
have a feeling it's not).
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja!
...Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
:)) sounds a bit like, and most words are, well lets say
they can be real ... Looks like a mixup of several
different styles of spellingproblems. Spelling errors
like Found when people know only spoken errors, wordswaps,
like done from stundents that had only started to learn
(lets say two years :) together with words are just nonsense.
I guess someone with a certain knowledge of German _and_
a real sharp mind had compiled them.
Gruss
Hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
8:14 a.m.
Wenn ist das
Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja!
...Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
:)) sounds a bit like, and most words are, well lets say
they can be real ... Looks like a mixup of several
different styles of spellingproblems. Spelling errors
like Found when people know only spoken errors, wordswaps,
like done from stundents that had only started to learn
(lets say two years :) together with words are just nonsense.
I guess someone with a certain knowledge of German _and_
a real sharp mind had compiled them.
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