Altavista Babel Fish adds Smurf to their language list
Posted by Matthew on Sunday September 29, 2002 @07:12PM
from the unknown dept.
Farquad writes:
Altavista is branching out to yet more cultures with its recent addition of the ultra-minority language Smurfish, as spoken by the Smurfs to the Babel-fish translation service. "The process of translating to Smurfish was remarkably easy" reports Altavista CEO Mr Alter P Veestar "We developed an algorithm that randomly replaces words with either "Smurf", "Smurfs", "Smurfly", "Smurfette", "Smurfing" or "Smurfed". However, the reversal of the process has posed significant headaches for the tech department, as shown by the following data leaked from the AV labs;
English to Smurf translation;
english: Although Rodjer Ramjet was a junky, nothing incites child riots like Captain Planet
smurfish: Although smurfly smurfette was a smurfy, nothing smurfs child smurfs like Captain Smurf
Smurf to English translation;
smurfish: Although smurfly smurfette was a smurfy, nothing smurfs child smurfs like Captain Smurf
english: Although segmentation fault
Altavista reports problems are minimal and hope to include the language of Marglar before this crap joke is spent.


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>Altavista reports problems are minimal and hope to include the
>language of Marglar before this crap joke is spent.
The rest was funny, but this last line completely cracked me up. Almost spilled some beverage, even.
Comment by Squid — September 29, 2002 @ 8:07 pm
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Hey thanks Squid, my inspiration is alcohol too !
Comment by Farquad — September 30, 2002 @ 8:56 am