Author Topic: Need a German translator... (Read 281 times)

AdmRose · « **on:** February 13, 2004, 09:54:25 PM »

How in God's name do you say "Major" (Military) in German?

Rafe35 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2004, 10:30:57 PM »

Hauptsächlich = Major

Chairboy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2004, 11:02:32 PM »

Umm, I think you mean 'Hauptmann'. Of course, I've also heard 'Major' (pronounced mayoor).

Chairboy · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2004, 11:59:35 PM »

Whoops! Yeah, what Gscholz said. Yet another reason I should never be put in the position of translating german between warring (or on the edge of war) nations.

straffo · « **Reply #4 on:** February 15, 2004, 02:40:57 PM »

I allways thought it was some thing like : raupengeld*** major

pugg666 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 15, 2004, 04:41:50 PM »

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

here ya go

Chairboy · « **Reply #6 on:** February 15, 2004, 04:51:32 PM »

Of interest, I entered the following into babelfish:

I am the very model of a modern major general.

I translated it from English to German and got this:

Ich bin das Modell eines modernen Hauptgenerals.

I then told it to translate THAT back into english:

I am the model of a modern main general.

Hmm... so then I typed in:

I am a major in the army.

I translated that to Japanese and got:

Ž„‚ÍŒR‘à‚ÌêUŠw¶‚Å‚_‚éB (japanese, the BBS software can't display it)

I took that and translated it back to english and got:

I am the major student of the troop.

Babelfish is fun.

pugg666 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 15, 2004, 05:00:25 PM »

Chair...don't bother trying to translate a sentance with Babelfish, it knows watermelon about grammer and sentance structure, but it can be funny at times