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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Programming on the Hell :-)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 17:41:47 -0500
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message 
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> 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.
>
> ----
> * Russian derivatives of Greek names comparing to their English
> counterparts sometimes lack 'H'. So Hades <-> Ад, Helen <-> Елена (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.