Re: Kazakh space plans

From: Andrew Gray (andrew.gray_at_dunelm.org.uk)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: 20 Jul 2004 16:54:56 GMT

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On 2004-07-18, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com> wrote:
>
>
> Dave Michelson wrote:
>
>>
>> Umm, carburant is the French word for fuel.
>>
>> The overworked translator, unsure of the English word simply
>> substituted the French equivalent.
>
>
> I still remember the time I used the auto-translate to English function
> on a French webpage, and discovered that the Mercury capsule was the
> "uncontested high-speed motorboat" in the race for funding with the X-20
> Dyna-Soar.

But isn't "uncontested high-speed motorboat" a wonderful description? I
mean, slap an outboard on the back, roll the hatch to the top, sit in
it, let rip... 

-- 
-Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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