Michael Thu Sep 6 00:43:48 2001
Looks bad for Wednesday
Well, Wednesday's come and gone and I still have 2000 words to translate before I sleep, so there will be no episode for Wednesday. Maybe tomorrow. I'm sooooo tired. Nothing's tiring like natural-language translation. It just sucks the marrow out of your brain. And since your brain has no marrow to start with, not being a long bone, that means translation really has to suck hard.
Or something.
Never mind, you monolingual people wouldn't understand.
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Super Joe "Tails" Nadeau Thu Sep 6 18:37:37 2001
Re: Looks bad for Wednesday
Can you tell me why I don't post so much here anymore?
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TimberBram Thu Sep 6 19:00:50 2001
Re: Looks bad for Wednesday
> Well, Wednesday's come and gone and I still have 2000 words to translate
> before I sleep, so there will be no episode for Wednesday. Maybe tomorrow.
> I'm sooooo tired. Nothing's tiring like natural-language translation. It
> just sucks the marrow out of your brain. And since your brain has no
> marrow to start with, not being a long bone, that means translation really
> has to suck hard.
Having some familiarity with another language (and scattered smatterings of several more, plus enough phonetics and linguistics trivia to be truly annoying) I believe I can sympathise greatly.
Good luck.
Peace, Tim Bram.
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mouse Thu Sep 6 19:26:01 2001
Re: Looks bad for Wednesday
> Never mind, you monolingual people wouldn't understand.
hey - i'm pretty fluent in gibberish - and i have some (unfortunate) exposure to marketing talk and bureaucratic doublespeak.
however, you have been performing well above average lately, and we are always happy to wait for quality.
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Michael Thu Sep 6 22:24:51 2001
Re: Looks bad for Wednesday
> and we are
> always happy to wait for quality.
Um. That could be good, or then again it could be bad....
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mouse Thu Sep 6 23:38:40 2001
Re: Looks bad for Wednesday
'quality' is a relative term, of course.
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Michael Fri Sep 7 02:15:02 2001
Looks bad for Thursday, too...
> 'quality' is a relative term, of course.
Just for that, no Thursday, neither!
(But I got my translation done, and my daughter got *more* than the expected amount of schoolwork done today, and started her tennis class at Parks & Rec, and we had another bonfire, and I started a nice proposal for those nice people in Berlin and ... oh, who cares. I'll get an episode up tomorrow.)
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