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[whiskyinmind]

Okay, so I was getting more than a little pissed off at the sites going down for a couple of minutes every hour (or at least that's how it seemed to me!) so I put a help request into the hosting company. Think things are sorted now but the response I got was a little odd...

"Please check your site moments-lost.co.uk now it is up and working

Comments

[velvetwhip]

I'm going to hazard a guess that the email was written by someone whose first language is something OTHER then English...

Gabrielle

[whiskyinmind]

*g* I was starting to think it was just me - it's good to know I'm not completely losing my mind!

Thanks!

[velvetwhip]

Believe me, it's not just you. I see the greasy fingerprints of Babelfish all over this one!

Gabrielle

[jgracio]

All your base are belong to us? You sure the email isn't in engrish or something? :)

And that meme has Portuguese as being easy to learn! Hah! I've met like one foreigner who knows how to speak it, a dude from your neck of the woods, teaching English around here. Spent the New Year a few years back listening to him playing in a local pub. Also comparing the Americans and the English. :) Hell, I speak the language and don't know half the rules, maybe less than one third. :( Damned Romans!

[whiskyinmind]

hehehe! Must admit, I've never read anything more than road signs in Portuguese so I've no clue what the language structure is like. I'm pretty surprised they've got Finnish higher than German though (German is one of the languages I do speak).

[jgracio]

Bem, se quiseres ter uma ideia é mais ou menos isto. Mas dúvido que seja suficiente para teres uma ideia das regras...

Loose translation :

Well, and just to give you an idea, it's kinda like this. But I doubt it'll be enough to give you a clue to the rules...

[whiskyinmind]

Oooo - see, now I'm tempted to learn it! From just that little bit it has a lot of connections with Italian and Catalan in there (the latter not being all that surprising)

Am I right in thinking that 'mais ou menos' actually translates as 'more or less'?

[whiskyinmind]

Hehehe!

I had a friend who tried to write a letter to lawyres in Germany using Babelfish. She asked me to give it a look over before she sent it and it took me about half an hour to stop laughing!

[emeraldswan]

Do you better understand my Mr. Eko love now? *grin*

How are you today?

[whiskyinmind]

Ha! Yup, Mr Eko rocks!

Sorry I missed you online last night honey, was absolutely shattered and crashed out. Good luck for your final final!