Granaboard job opportunities [!OT]

[mrwiseman]

Sorry, J01 (post repository submitter) and J02 (the poll) are taken.

J03 and J04 remain available, if anyone wants them.

Thank you very much for your offer [img]smile.gif[/img]

[One Classy Bloke]

Nya Nya NYAAA!!! I'm the one who stole those jobs. You need to be quicker on the ball (what does that mean?!). But, so there are no hard feelings, i'll be willing to take suggestions for polls. Just PM your ideas to me, and i may put it up (Note, this offer is only open until the end of Jan 04 to original Granaboarders only. Height limits may apply and all members must obsess over Gackt for 3 seconds.)

[Xellos]

I killed Gackt in his sleep. vile creature he is...

[One Classy Bloke]

So thats why Gackt hasn't released any new cds... Evil demon!! My offer is closed to you!

[Dragonrider]

OCB: I recommend opening up a thread for suggestions, it'd be a lot easier, IMO.

I haven't had to say this in a long while, but let's try to keep this on topic, it's not really a social thread :-P.

[Templar Zeratul]

I guess I could try #4

[Tee Ehn]

Translate from english to spanish??

K, the name of my board would be....

[img]eek.gif[/img] ?CALIENTE! ?CALIENTE! ?CALIENTE!! [img]eek.gif[/img]

just doesn't have the same word-sensation as HOT! HOT!! HOT!!! [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]

English to Spanish????

[mrwiseman]

Hi Tee Ehn, welcome to the Granaboard! Feel free to post anytime, anywhere. However, please remove the image from your sig and reduce the text in it, or turn it off in all your posts, because images are not allowed in this board for speed and visual matters.


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The translation for "Hot" is "Caliente" if you mean it's high temperature; as for the other meaning the proper translation would be "Mola", so your board would be translated as "?Mola! ??Mola!! ???Mola!!!". This translation is likely to be valid in Spain only.

Automatic translators are good when you have nothing else and you need to read something, to get a glimpse at least. The problem is they aren't very accurate and they always go for the most common/straightforwards translation of words.

The text

Welcome to the Granaboard. We have won the Board of the Month award. KOS-MOS and Shion are bound to fall in love.

was automatically translated to

Bienvenido al Granaboard. Hemos ganado la Tabla del premio de Mes. KOREA MOS y Shion tienen que caer en el amor.

while the proper translation would have been

Bienvenido a Granaboard. Hemos ganado el premio al Foro del Mes. KOS-MOS y Shion est?n destinadas a enamorarse.

The main problems here are that the translator thought "award" was for "Board" only, and translated "Board" for its most direct word, instead of forum. Then it misinterpreted KOS-MOS name. It didn't provide the most accurate translation for "to be bound to", which doesn't have a literal translation, and it didn't properly recognize the phrase "fall in love" and it translated it literally. There's also an additional problem which is not the program's blame: how would it know the Granaboard is a message board so "Board" must be translated as "Foro", not "Table", and how would it know that Shion and KOS-MOS are both female, so it has to write "destinadas" instead of "destinados"? Properly translating something is a really hard task, even for a human.

Anyways, I've shown you one of the charactersitics of our board: going offtopic all the time ^_^. I wouldn't want to use an automatic translator because I want a quality translation, that's why I'm asking for someone with a high understanding of Spanish.

[Tee Ehn]

thank you.

but nahhh, i don't stray away from my board much too long but i see your point.

[img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img] good luck to ya....

[img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img]

[mrwiseman]

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