And now for something completely different...

[TwinYawgmoth]

Attention:
We're absolutely on theme !

In the off - topic!

But why?

"German or English Diablo Version?"

SneJ is completely in English!

Marvelous!

Simon

 

[Schwarzer Engel]

Attention:
We're absolutely on theme !

In the off - topic!

But why?

"German or English Diablo Version?"

SneJ is completely in English!

Marvelous!

Simon

uhhh, you are right.... bad idea.

Let's change it right now..

Being in ontopic, oh no! Do not use this nasty word - ever!

 

[drago]

I hate those translating pages... the stuff that you need you will not find in any.

I can't agree with that. I very rarely look for something in Leo without success. I wouldn't let a web side translate a text of mine automatically of course. The results vary between stupid, funny and complete nonsense.

As long as an automatic translator is not able to understand what I MEAN, it will not be successful.

 

[Schwarzer Engel]

A year ago, I was told to learn SAP for a special project.
Out of the User manual...

I have never ever laught so much at work.
This manual seemd to be translated automattically form any language to english.

I have never seen such a bad, stupid english...

 

[DerBK]

Then you've never seen one of my essays in 5th grade... btw, nice sig. Great use of colors.


@Yawg: Just for the record, the 5000 in my post was a typo. i meant 500. Yeah, pretty much the same

 

[Popelmon]

A year ago, I was told to learn SAP for a special project.
Out of the User manual...

I have never ever laught so much at work.
This manual seemd to be translated automattically form any language to english.

I have never seen such a bad, stupid english...

ALL manuals are translated with a machiene.
my cousin used to work at siemens as "technischer redakteur", i.e. he wrote manual.s
they have a HUGE (about 700 terabyte) databse of all possible phrases in several languages there, and they just translate one handwritten manual in all other languages, and most of them are pretty good,

brrr, no 5.1 sound on linux yet, have to google a lot tomorrow :<

 

[destrution]

And you have never seen my english 3 years ago...
I was lucky when I got a D in tests
now I have an average mark of B since my final exam two years ago
uhm well ok last year it was only a C but only caused by a mistake which should never has been happened



ou and being ontipic in the offtopic...
what a crime
I should get prisoned

 

[Riven]

@ destruction: down into the dungeon with you !

@ translators: i have not yet checked leo yet, but I will try that next time. The problem is, that most the words that I need are not easy to translate. But learning new vocab from the books I have to read for class is not bad either.

But the annoying thing is that I will have to read Nietzsche in a translated version in next spring... I did not like him in german... and now in english...

 

[Popelmon]

nietzsche in englisch? where's the point? there are so many good english philosophers...

yeah, have to go to school, for one hour :/

 

[drago]

Do you know the "dictionary of contemporary english" from Langenscheidt?

It is not a german-english-translator but rather a book like the german Duden. It contains most words of the language and every word is explained in english. The clue is: All words used to explain other words give a total of 2000 words. So if you know those 2000 (more or less) words you are able to understand any explanation in the dict.

It is perfect to unerstand english texts without using a translation to german. Of course you can't use it to translate from german to english.

 

[DeLaDragon]

Do you know the "dictionary of contemporary english" from Langenscheidt?

It is not a german-english-translator but rather a book like the german Duden. It contains most words of the language and every word is explained in english. The clue is: All words used to explain other words give a total of 2000 words. So if you know those 2000 (more or less) words you are able to understand any explanation in the dict.

It is perfect to unerstand english texts without using a translation to german. Of course you can't use it to translate from german to english.

Haven't read about that Langenscheidt but I really love the Oxford dictionaries, which are in English, too.

An interesting web page is http://www.urbandictionary.com

It's not a typical dictionary but a data base where users can submit their explanation for words, mostly slang. So there's a lot of crap up there but still it's very useful and informative when reading contemporary literature or movies set in a special social environment.

 

[destrution]

Do you know the "dictionary of contemporary english" from Langenscheidt?

It is not a german-english-translator but rather a book like the german Duden. It contains most words of the language and every word is explained in english. The clue is: All words used to explain other words give a total of 2000 words. So if you know those 2000 (more or less) words you are able to understand any explanation in the dict.

It is perfect to unerstand english texts without using a translation to german. Of course you can't use it to translate from german to english.

oh yes, we are allowed to use this in exams
its really good if you need to explain something out of a text without knowing some synonym and you have to use some other words than those in the text

we also can use the oxford dictionaries but those are a bit more difficult in their explanations as the langenscheidt ones.

 

[drago]

And now for something completely different....

Does anybody here do some kind of sports on a regular base?

I played volleyball for 20 Years until my doc told me my knees are worn out. Earlier I played tabletennis as well and sometimes I like to do some squash, jogging and minor activities. And half a year ago I started with Tai Chi.

 

[TwinYawgmoth]

I just came home from playing tabletennis.

Other sports I abhor. Physical activities are absolutely NOT my favourite ones.

I can hear the "KELLERKIND!!!!!!111" - calls coming .

Simon

 

[DeLaDragon]

And now for something completely different....

Does anybody here do some kind of sports on a regular base?

I played volleyball for 20 Years until my doc told me my knees are worn out. Earlier I played tabletennis as well and sometimes I like to do some squash, jogging and minor activities. And half a year ago I started with Tai Chi.

I used to swimm, play tennis, soccer, basketball. Had to quit all of those (except for swimming, I had no more motivation to go on with that) because of my knees and my shoulder. I still do sports, especially soccer and boxing, but I have to cut my activities down a lot. Right now I can hardly walk without pain because of my knees. Still I'm scared of getting them operated.

 

[destrution]

Well, the only sport I'm doing (and have ever done ) is table tennis. And that only for hobby activities, not for playing in a club or something like that...

 

[Raudorn]

I do archery (well, during the last months nearly none at all, but I've reasons... ) and love to bike in the summer, although my bike is broke at the moment. To my regret I have to say that I should do more sports, at least my doctor told me to.

From time to time I try to finally get a regularly time shedule on sport activites, but until now neither I managed to find a sport I can afford nor one I really like to do. 8(

 

[Smoky Kupster]

And now for something completely different....

Does anybody here do some kind of sports on a regular base?

I played volleyball for 20 Years until my doc told me my knees are worn out. Earlier I played tabletennis as well and sometimes I like to do some squash, jogging and minor activities. And half a year ago I started with Tai Chi.

I played soccer for 13 years, tennis a half year . Now I'm in Shôtôkan-Karate-Dô where I got 3 times the german vice-championship and 1 time the european championship. I'm on martial arts now for 6 years... I got some elements from anti-terror-streetfight, Tae-Kwon-Dô, Kung-Fu, Judo, Jiu-Jitsu and some different kind sof martial arts... so I got a little knowledge about reacting in different situations... most of the karateka didn't got taht knowledge...

 

[ShooterInc.]

Well, i used to play basketball and volleyball. But only in school, not in my freetime. These both sports are - in fact - the only ones i like, though.

And long time ago, i used to play football in a team, but not anymore. In fact, i have some handicaps, such as asthma and several allergies. That just sucks. And that a lot.

 

[Riven]

Hmm, sports.... Iused to be a professional oarsmen, a rower. I did rowing for the last ten years, after a while professionally. But you really cannot maintain a healthy living just from that sport. But at least it got me into an Ivy League University in the end. I still do rowing, called crew here, but not as professional as I used to in the last years. Along with rowing I did a few years of Inlinespeedskating as a form of recreation from rowing. Marathons on skates a hell lot of fun.