ITCS Language Could be Worse

[Knestis]

There is a groovy site that automatically runs any English phrase through Altavista's BabelFish site to translate it into another language, then translate it back to English, then repeat the process until no further mutation occurs.

This is the IT Intent statement translated to German and back just once:

It is the intention of these guidelines of limiting necessarily for of of changes at that useful and to design a safe running car. This category is to let a multiplicity of the popular, cheap cars be suitable; however those, which of the association is determined, in order to be outside of these parameters, are not classified. Occurring ones are not guaranteed the competitive ability of any car, and competition adjustments, differently than Reklassifikation, are not permitted. Differently than those, which are specifically permitted by these guidelines, no element or part, which are normally found on one in camp stock of a given carrier, can be unfit, changed, or distant with the goal receiving each competition advantage.

See? It COULD be worse than it currently is. How about if we put the FIA in charge and they did it in French (translated over and over again)?

It is the intention of these rules to limit modifications to these useful and necessary to build a sure car of race. This class is conceived to allow a variety of popular and inexpensive cars to be eligible; however, those determined by the club to be independently of these parameters will not be classified. The beginners will be competitiveness guaranteed without car, and the adjustments of competition, others what one does not allow reclassification. Other that those specifically authorized by these rules, no component or part normally found on an operation of example of a given vehicle can be handicapped, changed, or removed in order to obtain any advantage of competition.

Actually, that sounds oddly familiar.

K

EDIT - site is at http://babel.mrfeinberg.com/index.php

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[JohnRW]

Let's run a thread from the Prod boards thru there. They might make sense, for a change.

[joeg]

Holy Cow...what a neat drafting tool. I got to show this to my secretary...

[Drew Aldred]

Originally posted by JohnRW:
Let's run a thread from the Prod boards thru there. They might make sense, for a change.

Hey John,

What's your problem with the prod people ?? I know alot of them visit multiple boards including this one. Not much, if any, IT bashing in the prod site. Just curious.....



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[Edwin Robinson]

A BMW driver must have written that translation program.... ;^) (kidding)

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[JohnRW]

Originally posted by Drew Aldred:
What's your problem with the prod people ??


(hijack apology)

I have absolutely no problem with Production racers. I've got a large number of friends who race Prod, and was even sharing my ice-race car last weekend with one of the Prod class pole-sitters from the 2003 RunOffs. At Nat'ls, the Prod classes are usually in my race group, and most of them are my friends.

My reference is to the Prod boards, which are, as I've claimed before, dominated (or maybe 'flooded' is a better word) by people who don't race in Production classes, and a bunch who don't race at all. And...they never let the facts get in the way of a good rant. That's why it's entertaining reading...but not reality in Prod.

On the IT boards, the majority of posters are racers who we all know and love. In this thread so far, we've got Joeg -who I've met, who I loaned a rear hatch off of MY race car at the track so he could run an IT enduro, and who I'll probably see racing in about 2 weeks at VIR (you going Joe ?) - and Edwin - who I've co-driven with at a couple of 24 Hour adventures, and raced against in Showroom Stock for years. And many many many more IT racers. These are all people who race. They have a stake in class. You cannot, with a straight face, say that the people posting regularly at the Prod boards represent Prod. racing. Pleeze.

The players over there don't have 'standing' in the Prod. community. If you are a registered Independant, you can't vote in a Democratic primary. If you don't own stock in a company, you can't vote your shares at the annual meeting. Sure...you can have an opinion, but don't expect others to give much heed to people who don't have a stake in the matter.

Besides, every time I take a playful poke at the Prod site, somebody gets self-righteous and defensive which, of course, just eggs me on. I had taken a previous poke (http://Forums.ImprovedTouring.com/it/Forum2/HTML/000606.html) and it drew out minor chest-beating and harumphing. I'm just going to keep taking the occasional swat, for fun. If some don't like it - tough luck. They need to grow a sense of humor.

To paraphrase Shakespeare - 'they doth protest too much'.


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[joeg]

No VIR, John...but I'm going to try to visit Honeyoe Lake on Sunday.

Cheers.

[924Guy]

Ah, now it makes sense... of course, the German (Ginglish, as we call it here at Bosch) makes more sense to me, but I'm used to reading tortured English trans-literations and trying to make sense of utter garbage. http://Forums.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

Any engineers out there who can likewise make sense of that mass of Ginglish, feel free to forward a resume... http://Forums.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif j/k

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'79 924 #77 ITA/GTS1
www.vaughanscott.com

[JohnRW]

Originally posted by joeg:
No VIR, John...but I'm going to try to visit Honeyoe Lake on Sunday.

Cheers.

Kurt went down this morning and, while there was plenty of ice (12-18"), there was way too much standing water on top, due to sudden and uncharacteristic warmth. He's going to plow out a track this afternoon, and hopefully it'll freeze up tonight and tomorrow. See ya Sunday, if it does.


Originally posted by 924Guy:
Ah, now it makes sense... of course, the German (Ginglish, as we call it here at Bosch) makes more sense to me, but I'm used to reading tortured English trans-literations and trying to make sense of utter garbage. http://Forums.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

Any engineers out there who can likewise make sense of that mass of Ginglish, feel free to forward a resume... http://Forums.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif j/k


Is it any worse than "soak the gudgeon pins in parafin" ???

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[joeg]

Darn...officially cancelled.

[lateapex911]

Originally posted by Drew Aldred:
Hey John,

...... Not much, if any, IT bashing in the prod site. Just curious.....



Of course not! probably because we, as IT-ers, are of a gene pool that has no defects!

http://Forums.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif

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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
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[Geo]

Originally posted by Edwin Robinson:
A BMW driver must have written that translation program.... ;^) (kidding)

You're assuming of course that they can write. http://Forums.ImprovedTouring.com/it/wink.gif


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George Roffe
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84 944 ITS car under construction
92 ITS Sentra SE-R occasionally borrowed
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[JohnRW]

Originally posted by Geo:
You're assuming of course that they can write.


That presupposes opposable thumbs. A big leap of faith, IMO.

[Dave Burchfield]

Another fun thing to do with the ICTS is to place it in your choice of dialect at:
www.rinkworks.com/dialect (http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect)

of course, one of my favorites is the Rednect dialect.

Enjoy!

db