Hi Gary,
That's interesting isn't it? Language translation can get a little askew
sometimes. A similar thing occured once when I was in QSO with a UA0. We
were talking politics when I asked him his thoughts on "the Pakistani
position" to which his response was "We tried it last night, and we both
fell out of bed!"
Tom
K8ANA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stone, Gary R." <Gary.Stone@va.gov>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 8:58 AM
Subject: [TowerTalk] QST - warning about setting up dx sked
> Greetings,
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> Just wanted to share my experience - sorry if it is slightly off topic
> but wanted to let the group know because I know many of you are dx'ers.
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> I wrote to a Russian ham on email with the question of setting up a try
> on 40 meter CW for my 5 band waz award. Well, I decided to include
>
> the Russian translation from a free translation page. Well, mistake big
> time. I will not print here in the email the result but will tell you
> to
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> avoid such translation machines on the Internet.
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> I sent (in part) in English: "I think we should use CW and the time for
> best propagation would be 1145 UTC." Well, the translation page into
> Russian gave me something very different and unfortunately I had already
> sent it when I decided to check out the Russian in another page. Well,
> just plug in the above English into the following page for English to
> Russian and then paste the Russian back into the same page or another
> free translation page (I checked two of them with the same result) and
> you will not like what you see in English. (I hope the actual Russian I
> sent is not exactly the same)
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> http://translation2.paralink.com/
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> It translated my "CW" and "propagation" into something that could get me
> a visit by homeland security !!
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> Just a FYI and thought it important to share.
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> Gary, N5PHT
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