[OT] was Re: rather OT - was - Re: Latin "joke", was Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 08 December 2014 16:58:51 Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Remind me not to use Google Translate.  The whisky is agreeable but the
> > meat
> > has gone bad!!!
> >
> > Lisi
> >

I said the above, I didn't say this, which you quote me as saying:
> > I tried translating one of the current mailing list topics - "Debian
> > fork: Devuan, Debian without systemd" into Latin using google
> > translate....

Where did you get it from?  Or did you say it yourself?  And I had quoted what 
I was commenting on, which you have excised; and which was a totally 
non-Latin, mistranslated in both directions, monstrosity!!

But I stand by what I said, if it is even sometimes as bad as that, remind me 
not to use it.

Lisi

> What you get is:
>
> Debian furca : Devuan , Debian absque systemd
>
> If you translate that back to English again it comes back with
>
> Debian fork : Devuan , Debian without systemd - but that doesn't give me
> much confidence any more.
>
> It could just be a fluke.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Fothergill