Re: [Foxgui-users]Renard:- The FOX GUI Builder...

[jeroen <je...@fo...>]

On Wednesday 27 March 2002 18:22, you wrote:
> > So the question is:  Qui est le Corbeau?
>
> Is this a question with some deeper meaning? I believe "le corbeau" from

Oh yes!  As an expatriate Dutchman, I'm always looking for a good 
source of cheese...!


> the fable was a crow. Three years of French in High School, two more years
> in college; finally, it pays off ;)
>
> I was curious to see what Babelfish would make of the story. It
> mistranslated some easy words (e.g. choosing "nozzle", instead of "beak",
> for "bec") and punted on some others altogether (e.g. "Apprenez", French
> for "learn"), but maybe it's just a matter of context. Anyways, here's its
> translation without any corrections by me:
>
> Master corbel, on a perched tree,
> 	Held in his nozzle a cheese.
> Master fox by the odor enticed,
> 	spoke about this language to Him:
> 	" And hello Mister of the Corbel.
>  How you are pretty! how you seem to me beautiful!
> 	Without lying, if your warbling
> 	refers to your plumage,
>  You are the phoenix of the hosts of these wood "
>  A these words the corbel does not feel joy;
> 	And to show its beautiful voice,
>  It opens a broad nozzle drops its prey.
> The fox seizes itself some and says: " My good Sir,
> 		Apprenez that very flattering Vit
> 	at the expense of that which listens to it:
>  This lesson is worth a cheese well undoubtedly. "
> 	The ashamed corbel and the confused
> Jura but a little late, that it more there would not be taken.



Obviously, Babelfish does not have your educational background :-) :-)



		- Jeroen


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