Programming on the Hell :-)

Programming on the Hell :-)

[Victor Porton]

Translate "programming with Ada"

English -> Russian -> English.

We get "programming on the Hell".

-- 
Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

Re: Programming on the Hell :-)

[AdaMagica]

Google Translate:

программирование с Адой

Re: Programming on the Hell :-)

[AdaMagica]

Google Translate:

с адом с адой
to hell with Ada

(I do not speak russian, but the Google Translate results often are questionable.)

Re: Programming on the Hell :-)

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

On Tue, 27 May 2014 00:29:28 -0700 (PDT), AdaMagica wrote:

> Google Translate:
> 
> с адом с адой
> to hell with Ada
> 
> (I do not speak russian, but the Google Translate results often are questionable.)

Yes, it fully ignored case inclination and preposition which distinguish
between Ада and Ад.

Female given name Ada requires:

   программирование на Аде

The realm of Hades (Ад in Russian [*]):

   программирование в Аду

or informally, jokingly

   адское программирование (hellish programming)

The major meaning of English 'in' corresponds to Russian 'в' (inside). It
seems that the naive thing replaced "inside Ada" with "inside Hades."

Another urban legend is backward translation of "flesh is weak but spirit
is strong", which plays around flesh -> мясо -> beefsteak, spirit -> спирт
(alcohol) -> vodka.

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* Russian derivatives of Greek names comparing to their English
counterparts sometimes lack 'H'. So Hades <-> Ад, Helen <-> Елена (Elena)
etc.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

Re: Programming on the Hell :-)

[Randy Brukardt]

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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
news:pobm9rlg2cf2$.13d9p8uhqtfuq$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Tue, 27 May 2014 00:29:28 -0700 (PDT), AdaMagica wrote:
>
>> Google Translate:
>>
>> á ÐÔÞÜ á ÐÔÞÙ
>> to hell with Ada
>>
>> (I do not speak russian, but the Google Translate results often are 
>> questionable.)
>
> Yes, it fully ignored case inclination and preposition which distinguish
> between °ÔÐ and °Ô.
>
> Female given name Ada requires:
>
>   ßàÞÓàÐÜÜØàÞÒÐÝØÕ ÝÐ °ÔÕ
>
> The realm of Hades (°Ô in Russian [*]):
>
>   ßàÞÓàÐÜÜØàÞÒÐÝØÕ Ò °Ôã
>
> or informally, jokingly
>
>   ÐÔáÚÞÕ ßàÞÓàÐÜÜØàÞÒÐÝØÕ (hellish programming)
>
> The major meaning of English 'in' corresponds to Russian 'Ò' (inside). It
> seems that the naive thing replaced "inside Ada" with "inside Hades."
>
> Another urban legend is backward translation of "flesh is weak but spirit
> is strong", which plays around flesh -> ÜïáÞ -> beefsteak, spirit -> áßØàâ
> (alcohol) -> vodka.
>
> ----
> * Russian derivatives of Greek names comparing to their English
> counterparts sometimes lack 'H'. So Hades <-> °Ô, Helen <-> µÛÕÝÐ (Elena)
> etc.

Hey, thanks! This will provide some strings to use for the next time I need 
to create an ACATS test for Wide_String. (One always wants to use real 
strings, but that's hard when one doesn't know any Greek or Russian, and as 
this thread points out, Google Translate isn't safe -- I don't want 
"programming in Ada is hellish" in an ACATS test!)

                                 Randy.