tube technology and EMP - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Apr 2005

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 From: msokolov at ivan.harhan.org

Philip Pemberton <philpem at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

  Speaking of which...
 <http://microscopy.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html>

 "VAX: When you care enough to steal the very best" :) 
I have finally looked at that page with a graphical browser (no, not my
own of course, at a puter lab in school) and it's invalid Russian, obviously
written by someone who did not know the language and was merely "translating"
from English by looking up English words in a dictionary, without any clue
as to choosing the correct meaning out of the many possible, and then
stringing those word "translations" together as they go in English without
regard for Russian grammar rules.  And one of the Russian words used there
is not a valid Russian word at all.

MS

Hi
 It should be fun running it back through a translator
to English.
 I often look at Italian post on Olivetti M20's. The Italian
word for "files" ( used many times in most post ) gets translated
to "rows". It took me a long time to figure out how this
resulted. Then I realized, it is confused with how solders
are positioned on a parade field ( rank and file ) with what
we refer to as a file.
Dwight