From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changing the language of gnus menu entries
Date: 26 Sep 2013 20:46:46 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnl4979m.2vt.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2954.1380222979.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Dale Snell wrote:
>> I once tried to find the German equivalent for the Arabic term «waziir
>> al-wuzaraa'» ('council of ministers') using Google Translate and was
>> baffled to see it translated as "Schrank" ('cupboard, closet')... I'll
>> leave it up to the reader to figure out around which corner Google was
>> thinking there. ;-)
>
> I think I've got an answer to this one. A "council of ministers" is
> also known as a "cabinet". A different kind of cabinet can also be
> called a "cupboard" or (maybe) a "closet". Again, no sense of context.
> Hence the odd translation.
Yup. Which made me wonder whether Google was using English as an
intermediate language in cases where a direct machine translation wasn't
available or advanced enough.
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 7:29 Changing the language of gnus menu entries Uwe Scholz
2013-09-24 14:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-24 15:14 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-24 16:41 ` Uwe Scholz
2013-09-24 19:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-24 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2807.1380053246.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-24 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 13:30 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-25 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 18:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-25 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 20:45 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.2878.1380138900.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 21:15 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-26 8:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-26 9:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <<8338oshfy5.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-25 20:08 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-25 20:24 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-09-25 23:09 ` Drew Adams
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2013-09-26 4:05 ` Joost Kremers
2013-09-26 17:02 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 17:09 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.2935.1380214979.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 17:22 ` Dan Espen
2013-09-26 18:31 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 20:37 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.2964.1380232675.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 22:21 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <<slrnl496os.2vt.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>
2013-09-26 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2013-09-26 19:15 ` Dale Snell
[not found] ` <mailman.2936.1380215384.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 20:44 ` Joost Kremers
[not found] ` <mailman.2954.1380222979.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26 20:46 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2013-09-25 20:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.2876.1380136471.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27 6:26 ` Jason Rumney
2013-09-27 9:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-09-25 19:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-26 0:37 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2861.1380124268.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-25 19:13 ` Uwe Scholz
2013-09-24 20:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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