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Re: O.T. German speakers please

From Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: O.T. German speakers please
Date 2012-04-11 13:18 +0000
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Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:
> However, I suspect my translation is roughly of the quality of Monty
> Python Bulgarian phrase book.

Indeed. :-)  This poem makes intensive use of long, nested sentences,
which in English (even if the words and grammar *were* correctly
translated) would still turn into some gibberish that doesn't
sufficiently correspond to the German meaning.

> I wonder if anyone who speaks English and German could have
> a look at it [...]
> see http://mindprod.com/politics/grass.html

I've actually tried, but gave up after third paragraph.
Mail me (with a replyable(!) address), if you're interested
in the first three ones.

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O.T. German speakers please Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-04-10 03:26 -0700
  Re: O.T. German speakers please Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2012-04-11 13:18 +0000
  Re: O.T. German speakers please Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-04-12 20:19 -0400
  Re: O.T. German speakers please Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2012-04-13 22:20 +0200

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