July 21, 2003
Babelfish fun

A french language forum linked to me and I ran the pertinent post through babelfish.. results were rather amusing..

Attract its glance by the interlaced binary ones of satin and lace. Unroll a page HTML slowly delicately coded. Become the one evening hacktrice thanks to our secrecies of seduction. And do the cries of nail varnish you know? 8)

Anyone who speaks French.. was that even close? Heh.

Posted July 21, 2003 07:40 PM in Funnies
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On July 21, 2003 09:28 PM JJ added:

Pretty close. 'Catch his eye with interlaced binaries of satin and lace. Slowly unroll a delicately coded page of HTML. Become the 'female hacker' of the evening thanks to our secrets of seduction. And are you familiar with the cry of nail varnish?'

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On July 21, 2003 09:37 PM ph added:

Its not that bad, Its more like (Im french speaking so maybe Ill make more typos than babelfish..)

Attract its glance with interlaced binaries of satin and lace. Unroll slowy a delicated coded html page. Become the evening hacktress, thanks to our secrets of seduction.

And are you familiar with the cries made by nails?

babelfish is close to it.

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On July 21, 2003 09:40 PM kasia added:

Oh, I see, so it sounded utterly bizarre only because it was, got it, thanks :)

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On July 21, 2003 10:29 PM JJ added:

PS:Looking at it in context, I think the poster was making a joke about the sort of advertising copy a unix site run by a woman would use to attract other women to the site, e.g. 'C'mon girls, I'll show you how to win his heart with code, and get a string of pearls with perl." Of course not being French, my example isn't nearly as smooth.

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On July 22, 2003 12:25 PM Paul added:

umm. so they wrote a poem for you?

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