Comments | matt_arnold: Spanish/English Debate About Liquid Nitrogen

matt_arnold

Spanish/English Debate About Liquid Nitrogen

Jun 22, 2006 11:18

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conventions, cory doctorow, penguicon, fun

Comments 7

atdt1991 June 22 2006, 15:30:54 UTC

That's majorly neat!

jer_ June 22 2006, 15:39:59 UTC

Wow, it's actually cooler to see it on the video than it was to see it at Penguicon... I'm alot closer, and the effect is easier to see. Very cool

tlatoani June 22 2006, 15:55:24 UTC

I don't have a YouTube account, and I don't want to make one just to argue with these guys -- but you should probably tell them just how close the hotel room was to the pool, so they know he didn't have to carry it very far. I think one of them is suggesting that his hands should have been frozen from carrying it.

avt_tor June 22 2006, 16:00:32 UTC

Babelfish is a pretty handy tool for reading other languages, but I wouldn't use it to try to intentionally communicate to other people. Spanish is a very simple language, but some words don't mean the same thing and some words have multiple meanings.

matt_arnold June 22 2006, 16:03:14 UTC

That's why translating the result back to English works so well.

phecda June 22 2006, 16:53:09 UTC

I know you like a good argument, and I'm amused that you've done so bi-lingually. :-)

I would suggest telling some of these hombres that if they doubt the film they should get some LN2 and toss it into a large body of water to see what it does rather than call it a fake simply because "el tio" is not wearing protective equipment. ;-)