Oolite Bulletins

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!"

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

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!

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...).

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!

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! )

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!)

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.

this guy is still the master

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...

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.

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.

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???"

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!