On the surface it's funny, but you do know that the Bible was originally written in Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament), right? And someone had to translate it. Have a Bible signed by the translator isn't WTF at all.
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RE: So apparently you can now get these...
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RE: Thank you so much, I feel better now
Ce n'est pas un ballon.
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RE: What year is it? Let me check the database...
This could actually make complete sense if the application is to be used in different cultures. For example, this year is 平成26 in Japan, the 26th year of the 平成 (Heisei) emperor (known in the west as Emperor Akihito). This is not obscure: while Japanese people do use the Gregorian calendar and know full well that it is 2014, 平成26 is used far more often in everyday life.
This lookup table would allow a translation from Gregorian to Japanese years (and other cultures do similar things) for output. More important, it could also handle years before 1989, which were years of the 昭和 (Showa) emperor (known better to us as Hirohito).
- 1987 昭和62
- 1988 昭和63
- 1989 平成1 (also called 平成元年, the change actually happened on Hirohito's death, January 8th of that year)
- 1990 平成2
- 1991 平成3
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RE: Missing The Point Award for 2013
@da Doctah said:
TRWTF is Canada Post. And not just because of this.
My kids get packages regularly from family in Japan, and we sometimes send things there. I just compared mail rates for a 2 kg package:
Canada -> Japan: $56
Japan -> Canada: $29Really? Twice as expensive? When Japan has home delivery 6 days a week and we get "superboxes" so our whole neighbourhood has to go and pick up their mail?
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RE: IE10
@dhromed said:
I have no idea what you're talking about. The scrollwheel on OSX behaves normally.
No it doesn't. By default, if you scroll the wheel towards the top of the mouse, it moves the page up, as if you were swiping up on a touchscreen. You can change it in preferences, but default is the opposite of everything we've used scroll wheels for in the past 10-15 years.
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RE: Double Negatives
There's only one technique you need to use with telemarketers:
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RE: Robolinux
@dhromed said:
But but.. German has lots of plurals! Most even end with -s!
On Scandinavian languages I can't comment. I remember vaguely that Japanese had no concept of plural like roman languages, but I'm not sure.
Actually, most German nouns do not make plurals with "s". It's typically words of foreign origin, such as Kino, Chef, or Kamera.
It is true that Japanese has no singular/plural (usually you construct the sentence to get the number across to the listener).
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RE: How do I pdf in html
This removes the ability of the user to print or save the PDF. I think that's kind of a stupid thing to do, but maybe somewhere, somehow, someone found a valid use for it.