Olive Oyls 12-month Countdown

ampersand

Aha, olive - didn't know you were working away simultaneously avec moi!

About 15 years ago, when the then State of Art translation pkg came out(Globalink PowerTranslatorProfessional, it was called), there was much fun throwing in a known text - lump of lovely Dickens for example, or Keats' poetry etc.etc. and seeing what PTP would throw back.
Then, this would be put back via PTP...you see where this is going...you can do it yourselves for fun and there'll be loads more uptod8 progs out there now.

After 4/5/6 there and back's, it all becomes quite wonderful and strangely, deliciously anarchic.

Great fun - try nursery rhymes with little'uns.

But I always loved - and still do- the journeying and working with text, pen and paper.

While in France tending A, picked up a wonderful notebook with clasp in which 1st writing is dated 1949:D , so meant for me. Some pages in, the owner has composed La Chanson des Pins(I'm sure it's her own effort, somewhat doggerelish in places, but so written with heart and observation and at times successfully pinning down something elusive and vital and haunting) ............

.............anyway, a continuing pleasure is to translate a bit more now and then, enjoying the feeling of her setting down sudden bons mots/phrases and then having to perhaps finetune, reconsider earlier translation by self, in light of similar lightbulb moments/intuitions.

This can't happen pressing a key.

Read Michel Quint's Strange Gardens, trans. Barbara Bray(no, not me) this morning - short, good.

Anyone else know it?
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Yes, another annoyance re: ! , i.e. holding Alt and keying 130 to get a French 'e acute', which is always censored on this site. WHY?

shaun40400

morning oliveoyl morning all
thanks for translation ampersand
yes oh had the same problem .....so she doesn't translate now unless she don't understand it at all,but stays wihin the language she s using,,
oh to be so intelligent
even ds is fluent in english and Lithuanian,and has a little spanish
and now get irish at school.
even elvin understands eng and lith
i am so jealous of folk who are multilingual.....

hypno06

Mooooorrrrrninggggg!

shaun40400

morning Mrs
er dident i just say that on your dairy??
am i going mad
are you stalking me??
whoopee i ve got a stalker i ve got a stalker
er no maybe not
just going snow crazy..........!

shaun40400

or maybe i am as im talking to myself on two dairies??????

mumoftwins

Morning all :wave:

Hope everyone is well - mind the roads, they're still icy here!

Have a good day,

Love MOT xx

OliveOyl_2

shaun40400 wrote: »

or maybe i am as im talking to myself on two dairies??????

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Shaun I need some of that happy juice you're on

OliveOyl_2

Well despite not posting on here, I am keeping on MS track......

The argos on-line voucher didn't work......so they're posting me a £10 voucher - whoopee, that means I save the full £10 off the £22 (reduced) curtains for DS2's room because I won't have to pay £5-something for delivery

35p on my scratchcards, that brings my DF date forward by, about 30 seconds I think

Shopped for cat food and bought just catfood :money:

The rest of this week we're going to be eating whatevers in the fridge. I've cancelled the milk, I've arranged for the cat to be fed (He has been very naughty, and has torn the corner of the bag of dried cat that we couldn't fit in the cupboard and spent the night stuffing himself :rotfl: )

But I haven't yet organised a lift to the airport.....DS1 is on my hit list.....

With the snow still lying in drifts across the garden it is hard to imagine that this time next week I'll be in glorious sunshine Fingers crossed that Heathrow isn't closed

shaun40400

1 pint of happy juice coming over
1/2 a fluid oz per wk is the stated dose
me i take an oz a day
ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

hypno06

OliveOyl wrote: »

The rest of this week we're going to be eating whatevers in the fridge. I've cancelled the milk, I've arranged for the cat to be fed (He has been very naughty, and has torn the corner of the bag of dried cat that we couldn't fit in the cupboard and spent the night stuffing himself :rotfl: )

Now, I know times are hard, and there are grocery challenges aplenty.....but dried cat???

:rotfl: