How do tou call a commander...

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:48 am

The jist: I was thanking him for using my ship design and apologising for the poor quality of my Italian.

I find this site very useful in accommodating the local dialects of our international brethren:

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Lack of effort is an easily curable symptom of the English disease after all:
"LE BACON AND EGGS SIV OOT PLATE!"

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:54 am

I used to use babelfish.. then I found ImTranslator.. 43 languages as opposed to just 12 for BF..

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:40 am

What about Swahili? Or would I be safe(ly incomprehensible) with that?

EDIT: Short browse to both babelfish and ImTranslator reveals: Zote mbili hazina lugha ya Kiswahili kwenye orodha zao. Kwa hiyo nadhani hakuna huku ambaye angeweza kufahamu na kutafsiri sentensi hii. Kama nimekosea, na wewe uko, basi unitumie PM!

saint · Post by **saint** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:03 pm

I will post the screenshots as soon as I can, but my wife has to fix something in gianoziaorientale.org

One thing about my signature: B.D.C. means "Botta Di Culo" a not-so-polite (ahem...) phrase used to state that something is happening out of sheer luck (It'not the best thing to say to some coworker's code...).

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:11 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
What about Swahili? Or would I be safe(ly incomprehensible) with that?

But Saint does not come from Swaziland! You post to confuse and bamboozle sir!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:38 pm

ClymAngus wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
What about Swahili? Or would I be safe(ly incomprehensible) with that?
But Saint does not come from Swaziland! You post to confuse and bamboozle sir!

And you, sir, should perhaps do a little refresher course in geography. Swahili is spoken in Swaziland as much as Ingush in England.

(And I am really proud that I found this pun!

)

ClymAngus · Post by **ClymAngus** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:25 pm

Commander McLane wrote:
ClymAngus wrote:
Commander McLane wrote:
What about Swahili? Or would I be safe(ly incomprehensible) with that?
But Saint does not come from Swaziland! You post to confuse and bamboozle sir!
And you, sir, should perhaps do a little refresher course in geography. Swahili is spoken in Swaziland as much as Ingush in England. (And I am really proud that I found this pun! )

but ha ha! You fell into my trap! In your rush to uncover ignorance in all it's forms, the truth of my statement still holds true! (However irrelevant). I have bamboozled the bamboozler thought the medium of the African subcontinent. I must bring this up as an amusing quip at the very next meeting of the Steampunk club of which I frequent!

(sure, off topic but FUN!)

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 8:51 am

Well, if it makes you (and your fellow companions) happy to provide true but irrelevant statements, I am delighted to have provided you with another opportunity to do so.

Always at your disposition.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:25 am

this guy is still the master

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:06 pm

Just by the way: I had not the slightest idea that "bamboozle" is actually a word and what it means (remember: I am not from the UK), until Griff posted that picture, and I copied it to my desktop and saw how the file was named. Then it was just one quick click to wikipedia.

So, I'm counted as a teletext quizshow host? Hmm. If I now only knew whether this is a favourable comparison, and to whom...

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:16 pm

Wow, that's some cool detective skills C_M, i wasn't sure anyone was going to be able to work out who he was, he looks like some old Sinclair Spectrum loading screen graphic of Walter Matthau.

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:23 pm

Hey, Bamber Boozler is cool, leave him alone!

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:39 pm

Griff wrote:
Wow, that's some cool detective skills C_M, i wasn't sure anyone was going to be able to work out who he was, he looks like some old Sinclair Spectrum loading screen graphic of Walter Matthau.

I'm a super detective, too. I right clicked the image, selected Properties and got the filename. From there it was easy sailing.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:45 pm

another_commander wrote:
Griff wrote:
Wow, that's some cool detective skills C_M, i wasn't sure anyone was going to be able to work out who he was, he looks like some old Sinclair Spectrum loading screen graphic of Walter Matthau.
I'm a super detective, too. I right clicked the image, selected Properties and got the filename. From there it was easy sailing.

Pah! You right-click windoze users, you!

But @Griff: Indeed, my first thought actually was "what on Earth has Walter Matthau to do with this thread???"

zevans · Post by **zevans** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 1:51 am

Wow. I never noticed the Walter Mattau / Bamboozle thing before. Has anyone ever seen them in the same room at the same time?

I'm not sure Google's idea of Swahili is entirely correct... definite lack of exclamation marks there!