OT: Japanese Translation

Fyron · #1 June 18th, 2003, 11:19 PM

Could someone please to go http://www.proxomitron.org/ and tell me what those symbols mean in English?

[ June 18, 2003, 22:24: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

Ed Kolis · #2 June 19th, 2003, 01:27 AM

I don't know any Japanese, but from the looks of the site I'd say either "Site under construction" or "Stare at this space and wait for something interesting to happen"

how did you come across that site, anyway?

Arkcon · #3 June 19th, 2003, 01:35 AM

That's totally bizzare Imperator, I use Proxomitron as a proxy ... but I never went to that web site, even though the program links to it. I got the program from here: web page which is at least a real page ... if written in Czech.

[EDIT] I don't read Czech, I have a small yellow fish in my ear

[ June 19, 2003, 00:43: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Fyron · #4 June 19th, 2003, 03:38 AM

That is the official web site of Proxomitron (or was, as I do not know what the site is trying to tell me

).

Arkcon · #5 June 19th, 2003, 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
That is the official web site of Proxomitron (or was, as I do not know what the site is trying to tell me ).

Like a wise man once said, you just have to stick the fish in your ear.

Babel fish link

The translation is poor I'll grant you, but I get the jist of it -- it appears the site is down temporarily only, not lost for good.

[ June 19, 2003, 02:50: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

Fyron · #6 June 19th, 2003, 04:24 AM

I know I can get a machine-generated translation, but that is not what I wanted. I want a real translation.

TerranC · #7 June 19th, 2003, 04:45 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I know I can get a machine-generated translation, but that is not what I wanted. I want a real translation.

Then pay for it.

Edit:

Babelfish tells me that the phrase says "It went away".

After looking around several Japanese-English Online dictionaries, and after I tried my best to comprehend it, I believe it says something along the lines of "On Hiatus; Thank you for your understanding.".

[ June 19, 2003, 03:49: Message edited by: TerranC ]

Kamog · #8 June 19th, 2003, 06:22 AM

The Japanese characters say "kiema****a" which translates to "Disappeared".

Tenryu · #9 June 22nd, 2003, 11:18 PM

I speak and read some Japanese, 2 years a university level, 25 years ago, damn I'm getting old, and lived and worked in Japan for about 4 years. I still am hopeless at it. So much for my lame credentials. Anyway:

I think the best current translation of that would be "vanished" past tense. Or, perhaps, more lightly, "Poofed" as in suddenly disappeared, like magic.

[ June 22, 2003, 22:20: Message edited by: Tenryu ]