<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2009/9/17 Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
While looking on Google for information about digital TV on Linux,<br>
I searched in Hebrew "לינוקס טלוויזיה דיגיטלית" (linux digital television)<br>
and I found the following forum, in Hebrew:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.unix.com/iw/whats-your-mind/87912-digital-tv-rocks.html" target="_blank">http://www.unix.com/iw/whats-your-mind/87912-digital-tv-rocks.html</a><br>
<br>
I found the subject of the thread, "טלוויזיה דיגיטלית הסלעים!" very amusing<br>
(a funny translation of the English phrase "Digital TV rocks!"), but the<br>
text of the forum was even more bizarre, containing really broken Hebrew<br>
and the phrase that really got my attention was "יש לי ארנב באוזניים",<br>
"I have a rabbit in my ears!"<br>
<br>
This made me think this was probably some sort of automatic translation,<br>
Looking at the menus on that site, also using completely broken Hebrew,<br>
made me think even more that this was an automatic translation. But why?<br>
Who would bother translating some sort of English Linux forum into Hebrew<br>
in an unreadable manner? Why wouldn't they clearly say something to this<br>
effect on the web page?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Reading the bottom of the page...<br>
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<br><br>It
appears that the page is being automatically translated via Google
Translate by the forum software, simply because you have /iw/ ( =
hebrew ) in the URL. Change the iw to 'fr' and you get the same page in
French, etc etc. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Web I clicked in the US flag on that page, I found the original English<br>
text of the forum. So now I'm sure this is an automatic translation<br>
(by the way, the original phrase was "I got some rabbit ears", referring<br>
of course to an antenna).<br>
<br>
I still wonder why this page exists in the first place... And why it is<br>
the first place on Google for somebody in Israel who wants to watch tv<br>
on linux...</blockquote><div><br><div class="smallfont" align="center"><div style="text-align: left;">It is there simply because the site, <a href="http://unix.com">unix.com</a>, has a high PR. The page is known to Google by (probably) inter-site linking, and... there you go! :)<br>
<br>-- Shimi<br><br></div>
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