Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
From: "Richard Kirke" <richardkirke@h...>
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:30:22 +0000
Subject: Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish
Allan,
What is the URL for Babel Fish? Do I have to stick anything in my ear?
Richard
Who got scarred off by the German, but could cope with a small fish in
his
ear to understand it
> >http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/default.htm
> >
> >The text is in german, but the figures should speak for themselves.
>
>This is a very cool site. I didn't understand the German, so I pointed
>Babel
>Fish to it. For those who don't know, Babel Fish (named after the
>translation
>fish in "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy") is part of the Alta Vista
>search
>engine. It does a whole bunch of language translations.
>
>At any rate, Babel Fish translated the site well enough to read, though
>some
>of the technical stuff didn't translate (Flecktarnanstrich, for one,
though
>you can sort of guess what it is). I smiled at, "The other armed
services
>(air
>Force, Navy, navy Corps) as well as for special vehicles (e.g.
engineering
>equipment) apply separate manuals." German grammar doesn't translate
>EXACTLY
>to English via Babel Fish.
>
>This is a good site, and as Brian said, I didn't realize the "paint by
>numbers" aspect of the cammo schemes.
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