Gumby's Ubeaut Typo Honour Board

[Gumby]

Spotted - from overseas too. Can we get it translated into Welsh ? :eek:

[silentC]

Dydy balf bigedig MDF chan Bunnings , ddibenedig i mewn abit chan Dulux Llonaid Graen howmal Laminex 'n Hen Gwynnwy ), chwpl chan splaters chan Cabots Weathershiled Acrylic

[Stuart]

And teh prise goes to Gumby- for his excelent entry in the GMCriton area where he links to his own club's website "Check out www.tritonwoodworks.org.au" and gets the website wrong (www.tritonwoodworkers.org.au). Now that has to be a winner

[Bob Willson]

Spotted - from overseas too. Can we get it translated into Welsh ?

Dydy balf bigedig MDF chan Bunnings , ddibenedig i mewn abit chan Dulux Llonaid Graen howmal Laminex 'n Hen Gwynnwy ), chwpl chan splaters chan Cabots Weathershiled Acrylic

On second thoughts, let's not bother.

[dan_tom]

Thye rkceon if teh leettrs rae all terhe it deosnt maettr baout tpyos.

Cheers
Dan

[Gumby]

Thye rkceon if teh leettrs rae all terhe it deosnt maettr baout tpyos.

Dan

It's all Dutch to me (hey Pete ?)

[Sturdee]

It's all Dutch to me (hey Pete ?)

No Gumby this is all Dutch to you :

" Zij denken dat het niet geeft met de misgespelde woorden als alle letters er maar zijn"


The other thing is just gibberish.


Peter.

[Gumby]

The other thing is just gibberish.
Peter.

gibberish...........isn't that the language of Giberia, spoken by Giberians ?

There's a few on these boards who come from there I reckon

[silentC]

No Gumby this is all Dutch to you :

" Zij denken dat het niet geeft met de misgespelde woorden als alle letters er maar zijn"


The other thing is just gibberish.


Peter.

According to Babel Fish, you said:

"They think that it does not give with wrong-spelled words if all characters there are but"

Makes sense to me :eek:

[Sturdee]

The trouble with Babel Fish is that it translates words literally but forget that other languages have a different word order and sentence construction then English.

And if a word has a number of meanings depending on the words used in conjunction with it Babel Fish invariably picks the wrong meaning.

That's how we get Chinglish or in this case Dinglish.

Peter.

[silentC]

Het is niettemin de pret, u denkt niet?

I once had a conversation on IRC with a French guy who didn't speak English. I used Babel Fish to translate my words to French and his to English. It worked OK. At least I think it did because he kept talking to me

It's a handy tool to give you the gist but some of the results are pretty funny. Especially if you translate back to English. I use it a fair bit because I work on a multi-lingual web site. I use it to check that I'm putting the right bit of foreign text in the right place. We have paid translators who do the actual translating.

[Sturdee]

Het is niettemin de pret, u denkt niet?

I would say " Het is wel leuk, denkt U niet ? "

In this context you would use "leuk" instead of "pret" although the meaning is very similar and to make the sentence a question the verb " denkt" must go first.

Of course you can correspond quite well using Bablefish as you can often work out the meaning.


Peter.

[AlexS]

I used Babel Fish to translate my words to French and his to English. It worked OK. At least I think it did because he kept talking to me

.

BUT! Does it translate american into English?

[Iain]

http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/dutch.htm

[Jack E]

"NAH!, Now way he'd shave 19mm jarrah down to less than 1mm !!!"

Found on the "Thicknesser Advice" thread, is this a typo Gumby?

Jack.