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Posted by Mike Pennell (Member # 1692) on 02-19-2004, 09:46 PM:
 
Does anyone know the translations for the common projector set up? Like how do you say platters or dowser or payout head, etc.
 

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Posted by Travis Hubrig (Member # 1745) on 02-19-2004, 11:27 PM:
 
You are kind of close to mexico...

There isn't a chance you are trying to train an illegal immigrant in your booth???
 

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Posted by Mike Pennell (Member # 1692) on 02-20-2004, 02:24 AM:
 
damn you caught me nah, just trying to hone my skills in spanish. the dictionaries arent helping me. next i'll be asking for russian translations
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 02-20-2004, 02:41 AM:
 
Learning languages is a great hobby, but how likely is it you will need these words in a Spanish conversation? Anyway, carry on, and here is a German word to motivate you: Umlaufblende (shutter).
 

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Posted by Mike Pennell (Member # 1692) on 02-20-2004, 03:39 AM:
 
danke
 

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Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 02-20-2004, 04:33 AM:
 
You might want to try a translator like babelfish. They suck for fully structured conversation, but are great for single word translations.
 

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Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 02-20-2004, 11:40 AM:
 
I use SystranSoft.com for language translation when I need it.

You're right, though. It's good for single words or short sentences but it just comes out all wrong when you try to translate anything more than that.

I am reminded of the old Monty Python Hungarian Phrasebook Sketch.

The REALLY funny thing is that I found this article on Yahoo.com.

It seems like somebody out there really DID publish a bogus phrasebook and Japanese tourists really ARE saying weird things in English!

Actually, the story turns out to be a hoax... but it's still funny!

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Bogus Dictionary Lands Tourists In Trouble!
Thursday December 4, 2003

A practical joker has stirred up trouble by publishing a Japanese-to-English phrase book with incorrect definitions for every phrase!

Now thousands of Japanese tourists who've painstakingly studied the bogus dictionary in preparation for trips to America are arriving on our shores only to encounter blank stares, hysterical laughter or even brutal beatings as soon as they open their mouths.

"The man who compiled this dictionary clearly went out of his way to wreak havoc," says New York hotel concierge Jacqueline Porseman, who arranges tours for many VIP guests from Japan.

"For instance, when the Japanese think they're asking 'Can you direct me to the rest room?' the book actually has them saying, 'Excuse me, may I caress your buttocks?'

"And, the phrase for 'I am very pleased to meet you' is given as 'My friend, your breath could knock over a water buffalo.'"

At least 50,000 copies of the book have been sold in Japan in the past year and while the Japanese government has pulled the plug on further sales, copies still turn up in used bookstores and bargain-hunters snap them up.

"This is not a funny matter to us," says Hiro Suzuki of the Japanese embassy. "Our citizens who look forward to a pleasurable time in America are being laughed at, spat upon, roughed up and humiliated without knowing what they said wrong. Tourists have been found beaten to a pulp on street corners with this terrible phrase book still in their hands."

Among the nearly 2,300 incidents reported to the embassy:

* A 29-year-old Tokyo man visiting San Francisco for the first time meant to ask a female store clerk, "May I please have film for my camera?" But what he actually said was, "Would you place your copious breasts in my mouth?" He was slapped in the face, then got tossed out by the manager.
* Four family members from Osaka were thrilled see their favorite American singer coming out of a ritzy store in Beverly Hills. While waving frantically, they shouted out what they believed to be, "We love you so much." Unfortunately, what they really said was, "We're here to take your head." The four were arrested and detained for six hours by police.
* A 45-year-old tourist from Okinawa looking for the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem thought he was asking a group of young men, "I am lost. Which way is uptown?" In reality, he said, "I know martial arts. May I kick your ass?" He was chased five blocks before being rescued by police.

No one knows who's behind the elaborate hoax. Some suspect the editor-publisher of the book, identified only as "M.L. Tanaka," is a disgruntled former Japanese tourism official. Others insist the culprit is a U.S. autoworker who lost his job to Japan in the '80s.

Says Porseman, "If it's an American, I wonder how 'funny' he thinks it would be to visit a Sumo wrestling gym in Tokyo and think he's saying 'You guys are the best, keep it up,' when he's really saying, 'You have fat butts. Sit on my head.'

"It's not so amusing when the shoe is on the other foot, is it?"

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Would have stayed with her if she would just quit smoking.

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No shit Aaron. Nothing turns me off more than an attractive young lady sticking a nasty ass cirgarette in her mouth then wanting a kiss afterwards. Might as well just pucker up and smootch an ashtray for that matter.
 

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Posted by Carl Martin (Member # 1146) on 02-21-2004, 06:00 PM:
 
he he. word.

carl
 

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Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 02-21-2004, 06:24 PM:
 
¿Tan ha llegado a ser esto un hilo acerca de besar a mujeres que fuman? Yo lo pensé era un hilo acerca de traducir la proyección palabras relacionadas en al español.

Si, odio a mujeres que fuman también. ¿Por qué parece ser las mujeres calientes que fuman?
 

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Posted by Travis Hubrig (Member # 1745) on 02-21-2004, 08:02 PM:
 
Show-off!
 

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Posted by William T. Parr (Member # 677) on 02-22-2004, 11:36 PM:
 
He probably went to dictionary.com and used the translator there to come up with that. Right Ian?
 

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Posted by Gracia L. Babbidge (Member # 582) on 02-22-2004, 11:58 PM:
 
Es la verdad que no me gusta la fumada de los cigarillos. Es un olor mal. Pero lo tolero porque mi madre y mi novio fuman.

Creo que no es muy dificil a traducir palabras de proyección al español. Tiene que buscar en un diccionario.

Busqué rapidamente, y encontré este:
shutter (photog.) -> obturador


 

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Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 02-23-2004, 12:36 PM:
 
I know platter in spanish is disco, but that is the plate.

Yes Ian, this was meant to be a thread about projection words in spanish...not smoking women! Start another thread.
 

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Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 02-23-2004, 04:11 PM:
 
Ian - pienso que usted no está parada una ocasión con las mujeres realmente calientes si fuman o no...
 

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