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Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: AdmRose on February 13, 2004, 09:54:25 PM: How in God's name do you say "Major" (Military) in German?
Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: Rafe35 on February 13, 2004, 10:30:57 PM: Hauptsächlich = Major
Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: Chairboy on February 13, 2004, 11:02:32 PM: Umm, I think you mean 'Hauptmann'. Of course, I've also heard 'Major' (pronounced mayoor).
Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: Chairboy 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.
Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: straffo on February 15, 2004, 02:40:57 PM: I allways thought it was some thing like : raupengeld*** major ;)
Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: pugg666 on February 15, 2004, 04:41:50 PM: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

here ya go
Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: Chairboy 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.
Title: Need a German translator...
Post by: pugg666 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 :D