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More translations?

Dear Hermine,

I've looked over my latest edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
and find you may have stuck your babelfish in the wrong ear. (Seriously
folks, that's how the fishy universal translator works. Its not an insult.)

I suppose you confused this one with some other Sansevieras forum where
comedy is king (only they don't know it)! I've heard of floating crap games
but floating forums? Are they on the lam? Jean Valjean had an easier go of
it.

We were hoping for a translation that everyone could find informative. How
about a translation of the original French description of Sanseveiria
sambiriensis Perrier that closed down a forum? Enquiring minds want to know
what was so offensive about it.
http://www.mallorn.com/lists/highlight.cgi?bits=3&search=sambiranensis&URL=s
ansevierias/oct98/msg00024.html

BTW, don't forget to bring a towel.

(not so) Cereusly Steve

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•Subject: Re: [SANS] SANSEVIERIA CAESPITOSA
•From: "Wisely, she wrote"
•Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:14:32 -0800
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At 11:45 AM 12/20/99 , Stephen M Jankalski wrote:
>Dear Hermine,
>
>That is real handy. Thank you for your efforts.

NO CHARGE! i find that babelfish turns normal language into some hilarious
parody. actually i speak German Botanical Description, as it is a limited
vocabulary and is not conversational, i have some trouble with that, and
the longer my Grandmother stays dead, the harder it gets for me. i thought
that the inclusion of actual untranslated German words was the funniest
part of it.

Sometimes i write poems in English, translate them through all the various
foreign languages and back into English, for the sheer joy of idiocy.

hermine
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