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Is that a human or Google garble?

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:31:49 AM EST
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Re: We get mail (4.00 / 2)

Possibly Gargle.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:53:22 AM EST
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Hint : google-translate it back into Chinese then try another language. Thus :

Je suis venu de Hainan Kaimao importation et l'exportation Trade Co., Ltd. En Chine. Beaucoup de mes clients m'a récemment demandé après les noix sèches, noix de l'équilibre et noix d'avant d'appuyer sur l'écrou, ce qui est droit à mes branche d'activité.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:32:42 AM EST
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Tee-hee.

G-Trans'd back into English:

I came Kaimao Hainan Import and Export Trade Co., Ltd.. China. Many of my clients recently asked me after dry nuts, coconut and nuts balance before pressing the nut, which is right in my industry.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:52:52 AM EST
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do we often get nutty email?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:55:13 AM EST
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No, though quite a bit of spam. Mostly highbrow commercial backlinkers who just love ET and have some great blog material for us, do we accept guest posts?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:00:19 PM EST
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Finnish and back

I come from Hainan Kaimao Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd in China. Recently a lot of my clients ask me after you press the nut, the nut and the balance by pressing the nut, which is right in my industry

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:06:09 PM EST
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and via Arabic

I come from Hainan Kaimao Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd in China. Recently a lot of my clients ask me after compression nuts, hazelnuts and balance by pressing the nut, and that is right for me in the industry

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:10:51 PM EST
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then through Armenian onto Basque and back

The Kaimao imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd in China. Many of my clients recently asked the compression nuts, hazelnuts, and the balance, after Nut, and me is right, industry

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:13:27 PM EST
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Re: We get mail (none / 1)

Back through Chinese then to German then to English:

I came Kaimao Hainan Import and Export Trade Co., Ltd.. China. Many of my clients recently asked me about the sale of fruits, dry coconut, and then the mother, who is in my area.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:01:35 PM EST
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This is improving...

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:04:00 PM EST
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It is becoming simpler. And Gargle is settling on the formula, no matter what languages I feed it through (I tried Spanish, Welsh, Haïtian Creole, Traditional Chinese).

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:12:17 PM EST
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So we agree we're selling the mother?

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:12:51 PM EST
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Wang Sikun is selling his, rather. Or at least his clients want to buy her.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:16:49 PM EST
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She should get out of his area, presto!

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:18:43 PM EST
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The plot thickens (none / 0)

Chinese to Catalan to English:

I came from Hainan Kaimas import and export trading limited in China. Recently, many of my clients ask me then the balance of the female screw and nut before in my line of business

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:39:24 PM EST
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Re: The plot thickens (none / 0)

That explains why he sells his mother.

by Katrin on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:42:08 PM EST
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Re: The plot thickens (none / 0)

And Eurovegas does not work yet!

by PerCLupi on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 04:11:17 PM EST
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Through Croatian:

I came from Hainan Kaimai import and export trade limited company in China. Recently, many of my clients ask me after, walnut, pecan nut balance before in my profession

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:18:12 PM EST
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Re: We get mail (none / 1)

This is revealing an astonishing amount of hidden information.

I was rather taken by the idea that coconut is called something like "balance nut" in Chinese. But walnut, pecan nut, hazelnut? They can't all be right...

I think the default type of nut in each language is in play.

But seriously. The "English" original isn't even clear whether it's about nuts-and-bolts or food.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:25:11 PM EST
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Re: We get mail (4.00 / 2)

It is also revealing that Google translate is not using any morphology or semantics, which we knew.

I heard that Google is employing linguists in this project. WTF?

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:27:36 PM EST
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Interestingly, if you go through Spanish, you get nuts for bolts (tuercas)

I came from the import and export trade Kaimao Hainan limited in China. Recently, many of my clients ask me then balance nut nut and nut before in my line of business

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:30:14 PM EST
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I was hoping for an almond.

Spanish seems astonishingly poor in adjectives??

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:32:32 PM EST
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http://www.technologyreview.com/view/425019/the-cause-of-riots-and-the-price-of-food/

Hebrew and back gives

I came to Hainan Kaimao Imp & Exp Trading Co., Ltd in China. Recently, many of my clients ask me about the push nut, and balance before the hard nut, which is right in the line of my business

The word for hard and the word for pressing have the same consonants, and Google doesn't know about vowels in Hebrew (most of their source texts won't have them anyway).

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:35:17 PM EST
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Re: We get mail (4.00 / 2)

There are many problems with computational linguistics.

This is one.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:56:41 PM EST
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Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 4)

Interesting graph of food Price Index here, riots/uprisings marked by red lines.:

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:28:47 AM EST

Of note is that the FPI is currently around 210, but there are suspicions that this winter it will rise again...

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:29:30 AM EST
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More than suspicions, I'd say...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:04:31 PM EST
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Probably a map of Glencore's profits as well.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:30:29 AM EST
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Well, I've booked my course. So I will be in the frozen north, or at least northern England which is almost as bad, come Jan/Feb

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:31:34 AM EST

May have you beat. (none / 0)

Currently working on a case centered in Detroit.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:05:47 PM EST
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Malting and brewing do involve the emission of heat. Just don't leave the brewing premises.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:06:01 PM EST
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I may have to sleep occasionally.

and also visit places like breweries (and pubs).

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:25:10 PM EST
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I've just got the reading list. eeeek, a 1000 page book on microbiology.

fortunately it's dead cheap on amazon but my brain may explode as i haven't done biology or chemistry since I was 16

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:47:22 PM EST
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90% of that stuff you can ignore. Read up about yeasts and the Krebs Cycle.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:58:23 PM EST
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Whoa the Krebs cycle!

I remember having understood that. It must have been in 1979, for a period not exceeding three weeks before and during my biochem exam.

It was a very new and exciting field in those days, biochemistry. And you could do a reasonable survey of it in one second-year paper.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 02:02:53 PM EST
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all I know is that I met a guy at a beer fest who did an MSc in yeast microbiology and turned it into a million dollar a pop brewery consultancy business

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 02:40:59 PM EST
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Better hop to it, then.

:rimshot:

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 04:44:35 PM EST
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an interesting trip (4.00 / 2)

To youth

http://soundcloud.com/das-boy/sets/john-peel-show

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:57:13 AM EST

I was long past youth in 2004.

What 'd like to do is listen to the Peel shows of the late 70s where he'd play really obscure dub reggae that was absolutely stonkin'

He had a terrible habit of telling you what he was about to play, but not what he'd just played. So if you really liked something and wanted to buy it, you couldn't cos you couldn't know what it was you'd just heard.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:28:16 PM EST
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Didn't he post the playlist on his website?

;-)

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:48:12 PM EST
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He didn't have a website in the late 70s, anymore than I had a computer ;-))

And I'd have to hear the track to know which one to check up

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:57:04 PM EST
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gonna have to stop listening to it as it eats my bandwidth

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:33:19 PM EST
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Re: an interesting trip (none / 1)

Thank you for that.

i think I'll rewind to about, let's see, 1986 where I left Uncle John behind, and work through it and see if I can end up understanding this Modern Music.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 02:19:04 PM EST
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1979 (none / 0)

Amazing the archeological remains to found in the U-Tubez. Also way ahead of its time as a 'I has a hotdog' meme ;-)

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 12:43:36 PM EST

Re: 1979 (none / 0)

What strikes me is that if you want good image quality, it has to be either fairly recent (digital video) or really ancient (actual film)

Analog video suuuuucks.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue
- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 01:55:24 PM EST
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/breaking-fbi-receives-credible-information-about-t,29516/?ref=auto

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 02:49:16 PM EST

Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

given that we now know that the CIA were screaming about OBL and al-Qaeda all that summer with detailed briefing after detailed briefing, I fear my sense of humour fails me

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 02:55:23 PM EST
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Yeah, somehow I don't find it funny either.

If you are not convinced, try it on someone who has not been entirely debauched by economics. — Piero Sraffa

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 03:41:26 PM EST
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I don't think funny is exactly what they're aiming at here.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 03:43:27 PM EST
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We are not amused.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 04:43:16 PM EST
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this is a better tribute

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Sep 12th, 2012 at 07:50:57 AM EST
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aaaaarghhh !!!

I don't know why I watch England attempt to play football, but for some stupid reason I care. And it hurts like toothache for the whole match. It's just so frustrating.

they're trying to play like Barcelona with lots of tippy tappy short passing and movement, but without the movement or even the ability to pass the ball 4 or 5 yards without it going to the opposition.

clueless. utterly clueless

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 04:59:13 PM EST

Re: Tuesday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

To make it even worse, according to one analysis England have actually been overperforming for the last 30 years

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 11th, 2012 at 06:18:37 PM EST
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by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Sep 12th, 2012 at 01:28:06 AM EST
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