work in denmark

[AtW]

Ja, mit hus er mange år gamlet. Det var gamelt da Charles X Gustav af Sverige og Kong Fredierik III af Danmark mødtes i min have til forhandling om traktat Taastrup.

This crossed 'o' and 'a' with a ball on top of it looks pretty cute. I always thought English needed more letters like 'i'.

[threaded]

<insert name of large telecomms company>.

Get out of telecoms. It is a mugs game. So many bluffers in it the rates are really through the floor.

Sheet, I know a company whose whole business model is to bluff unsuspecting investors into mobile/telecoms portals, then they get part-time students to 'write' the code.

They are so bad even Voda turned them down...

threaded in "telecoms is a mugs game" mode.

[Shimano105]

woohoo - threaded has discovered babel fish

[Churchill]

woohoo - threaded has discovered babel fish

Discovered it?

Nah mate, he wrote it!

[threaded]

woohoo - threaded has discovered babel fish

Babelfish gengiver ikke dansk lille skiderek.

If you do find somewhere that can do it I'd really like to know actually.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Babelfish gengiver ikke dansk lille skiderek.

If you do find somewhere that can do it I'd really like to know actually.

[tim123]

Get out of telecoms. It is a mugs game. So many bluffers in it the rates are really through the floor.

How? (I do embedded product development BTW so my skills are easily transferable. But in the last 10 years I can count on the finges of one hand the number of times that an application for a job outside telecomms has resulted in an interview, and never in an offer).

Tim

[tim123]

http://www.tranexp.com

It's not free, and it's just as crap.

This is a sample Swedish to English that it produced:

We have nots had time with that attend to all defects on olds exposed term. Therefore requires wes additional register term. Wes will wonder Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday attend to remaining apartments. For that quickly poll away defects requires wes come in in all apartments. Wes am arriving therefore, if yous nots is housewife, that autumn in with head keys. Sheep wes do not enter head down keys, all that you will reserve other term, inform ourselves this. Wes assumes otherwise that wes sheep autumn in with head keys. Wes am arriving also in allegory apartments, left a distributor as ring up to if husband had multi than a television apparatus.

It's fixable if translating into your own language, e.g sheep autumn started off as får gå which can translate as "may walk" and then the sentence makes much more sense, but you are never going to be able to fix the other direction.

tim

[Francko]

Aummba katumba bamwamba bii bii! *

* Sorry I wanted to show off my language knowledge too.

[threaded]

woohoo - threaded has discovered babel fish

The joke is that it is not really possible to make a Danish translator, at a top level there are three languages: spoken, written and right dansk. If you try and write a translator for either of these it will either be ridiculed, or not work.

Reasons for this is essentially no two danes actually speak the same language. For example start in Esbjerg and move across the country to Bonholm and the number of genders in the language changes from 1 to 3. Same sort of thing happens with verb conjugations. Even some words change translation: potato for example translates differently on Jylland to Sjælland.

An old fisherman from Newcastle can have a conversation, no problem, with his counterpart from Esbjerg, but just a few miles inland talking to a youngster, not a hope.