An open letter to C is for

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:06 pm

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Post by **Laser Jock** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:13 pm

I love Google Translate.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:39 am

Ha. Yeah. Me too. Except I didn't use a translator to type that. I would type more Chinese for you, but I'm on the desktop, which doesn't have the character set installed.

Sky Bones · Post by **Sky Bones** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:13 am

I love Japanese and the fact that it uses the same characters as Chinese and I didn't have to use Google Translate.

(Boom! Roasted.)

Happy Birthday!

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 12:13 pm

Sky Bones wrote:I love Japanese and the fact that it uses the same characters as Chinese and I didn't have to use Google Translate. (Boom! Roasted.)

Happy Birthday!

Except I didn't use Google Translate to type those. 'Cuz I'm awesome. Maybe when I'm in Taiwan, I'll write you letters in Chinese and you can read them in Japanese. [ =

vorpal blade · Post by **vorpal blade** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:23 pm

All I see on my monitor is four rows of empty boxes.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:36 pm

vorpal blade wrote:All I see on my monitor is four rows of empty boxes.

You must not have Chinese character sets installed properly. What OS are you using?

Tao · Post by **Tao** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:35 pm

vorpal blade wrote:All I see on my monitor is four rows of empty boxes.

mmmm, time to upgrade to a flat screen. Might be able to get row of boxes to fit, tops. Even then they'd have to be small boxes, or well balanced.

Post by **C is for** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:36 pm

Thanks, Gio! And thanks, Sky Bones. I appreciate the thoughtfulness.

For the record, I am not such a huge fan of Google Translate.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:22 pm

Do you prefer another option or something? Or do you just not like GT in general?

Post by **C is for** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:31 pm

It's annoying.

vorpal blade · Post by **vorpal blade** » Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:18 pm

I'm using Windows XP.

The boxes are really, really small, Tao, and fit nicely on my flat panel screen.

Since I can't read Chinese I really don't need the character set. It did make me wonder, when I first saw this post, what sort of language uses identical looking boxes. A form of the C programming language, perhaps? http://boxc.sourceforge.net/language.html

Post by **Laser Jock** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:41 am

C is for wrote:It's annoying.

Well, it certainly doesn't translate things perfectly, but for those times when someone posts in a language you don't know, it's invaluable.

(Or when someone has a chat status in their mission language, or when you want to verify that something in a language you can mostly read says what you think it says.)

vorpal blade · Post by **vorpal blade** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:53 am

This computer uses Windows XP, but I can now see the characters. So I used Google to translate it. Hey, it works!