Posted on 07/29/2004 4:42:10 PM PDT by baltodog
Go here:
http://www.engrish.com/
I do remember nearly wetting myself, though.
This is how your article(referring to the D. Adams obituary) looks when translated from English, to Cheese-Eating-Surrender-Monkey (AKA French), to German, then back to English: "LONDON (AP) Douglas fir of Adam, died author of the comedy of the Kultscience Fiction "The Leader of the Own Auto of the Galaxy", at age 49. British fount of Adam died Friday heart crisis in Santa Barbara, her London speaker California, Sophie Astin, said Saturday. "Leader of the Own Auto of The Galaxy" the first emission as series by radio British corpbekanntgabe. in the year 1978 a satirisches adventure approximately was a group interplanetary journeys; it is opened with the earth, which is destroyed, in order to make the way for a intergalactic bus. IT was converted in series of television exactly the same as a book, several consequences, including "It, Those at the End of the Universe Restores", "The Life, Which Caused Universe and Everything" and "So Much Length and Have Mercy to all Fish", Educated at the university of Cambridge, Adam its career as a standard author sequence publisher to the BBC began. He persisted to write around several books concerning "the ganzheitlichen detective" Dirk and with John Lloyd of the laughing alternative dictionary " tenderly the meaning of Liff. ' ' He was frequent a broadcasting station by radio on the science and the technology. Adam was married a girl. One the network: http://douglasadams.com From this translation, we learn Doug Adams authoered "The Leader of the Own Auto of the Galaxy" "It, Those at the End of the Universe Restores" "The Life, Which Caused Universe and Everything" "So Much Length and Have Mercy to all Fish" We also learn Doug was married a girl. And I like how the translation calls him a Douglas fir. What you say? 15 Posted on 05/12/2001 05:09:18 PDT by Lazamataz
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