OT: Learning new words (was RE: "Single instance" machines)

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Thu Dec 17 08:55:35 1998

At 09:43 PM 12/16/98 -0600, Paul Braun wrote:
>>>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"
>
>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
Received on Thu Dec 17 1998 - 08:55:35 GMT

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