Americans invent the Universal Translator

[mrsd]

In use in the gulf now:
The phraselator

Clever stuff, but you have to wonder what the person who wrote the website examples was thinking about at the time:

'Give orders or provide direction

"Open your mouth."
"Lie face down on the ground."'
"Lie back and think of England"





















OK, I made the last one up

[Captain Muppet]

WTF kind of word is "ruggedized". Bloody Yanks.

[mrsd]

OI ! Don't forget we have the right to bear arms

[donatien]

Wonder if they will do a version that translates American into English

"Wow man like, it's a like really nice, like day out there man"

Comes out as

"It's sunny"

[mrsd]

No chance. You'd be able to use it on Rumsfeld

"Colateral Damage"...."Murdering innocent civilians"

"Shock and Awe"...."Blitzkrieg"

"Weapon of Mass Destruction"...."MOAB"

"Camp X-ray"...."Flagrant breach of international law"

"Donald Rumsfeld"....I'm so not going to go there.

[Beano500]

Can someone translate the phrase "friendly fire" back to the US, please?

[Size Nine Elm]

Captain Muppet said: WTF kind of word is "ruggedized". Bloody Yanks.

Its 'standard' terminology for computer/electronic equipment which has been protected against both physical and electronic abuse, i.e. can be dropped, thrown about in a tank, and can withstand a high level of electronic jamming...

[Scruffy]

Does it do drunk geordie squaddie?

Am gaan smaak yoo ers ye derty fat pooof.

[Scruffy]

Size Nine Elm said:

Captain Muppet said: WTF kind of word is "ruggedized". Bloody Yanks.

Its 'standard' terminology for computer/electronic equipment which has been protected against both physical and electronic abuse, i.e. can be dropped, thrown about in a tank, and can withstand a high level of electronic jamming...

Would rugged not do?

And while were on the subject, normalicity.

[JMGS4]

Size Nine Elm said:

Captain Muppet said: WTF kind of word is "ruggedized". Bloody Yanks.

Its 'standard' terminology for computer/electronic equipment which has been protected against both physical and electronic abuse, i.e. can be dropped, thrown about in a tank, and can withstand a high level of electronic jamming...

In other words, idiot proof!!!

[bob the planner]

JMGS4 said:

Size Nine Elm said:

Captain Muppet said: WTF kind of word is "ruggedized". Bloody Yanks.

Its 'standard' terminology for computer/electronic equipment which has been protected against both physical and electronic abuse, i.e. can be dropped, thrown about in a tank, and can withstand a high level of electronic jamming...

In other words, idiot proof!!!

Not quite. Thrown about in a tank not "driven over by a tank"

[Graham]

Beano500 said: Can someone translate the phrase "friendly fire" back to the US, please?

It moved so i shot it....

[wedg1e]

.. and how the furgle does 'momentarily', which for all my life at least has meant 'for a brief time' suddenly acquire the meaning 'soon'...?!

Jesus T. Christ.

Ian

[minimax]

Scruffy said: Does it do drunk geordie squaddie?

Am gaan smaak yoo ers ye derty fat pooof.

or:
how ye? aye yiz - ah'm gan te smack yiz fookin' irakky ass aaaal ower then ah'm gan te pook y' bord when ah get t' irak

or something like that (as heard at the percy arms in otterburn last friday night)

>> Edited by minimax on Thursday 27th March 20:12

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[donatien]

American "I think we killed some more of those Brit good guys, sir, yes, sir"

English (with Blair module installed) "Making good progress"

[Captain Muppet]

Size Nine Elm said:

Captain Muppet said: WTF kind of word is "ruggedized". Bloody Yanks.

Its 'standard' terminology for computer/electronic equipment which has been protected against both physical and electronic abuse, i.e. can be dropped, thrown about in a tank, and can withstand a high level of electronic jamming...

Only in computing would the world require a new word to describe a product actually designed to suit it's environment, rather than being an unreliable, buggy piece of crap.

[JMGS4]

bob the planner said Not quite. Thrown about in a tank not "driven over by a tank"

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Bob you've obviously never had anything to do with tankies I assume! Almost as bad as the woodentops!