I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)

[shimi]

2009/9/17 Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il>

> While looking on Google for information about digital TV on Linux,
> I searched in Hebrew "לינוקס טלוויזיה דיגיטלית" (linux digital television)
> and I found the following forum, in Hebrew:
>
>        http://www.unix.com/iw/whats-your-mind/87912-digital-tv-rocks.html
>
> I found the subject of the thread, "טלוויזיה דיגיטלית הסלעים!" very amusing
> (a funny translation of the English phrase "Digital TV rocks!"), but the
> text of the forum was even more bizarre, containing really broken Hebrew
> and the phrase that really got my attention was "יש לי ארנב באוזניים",
> "I have a rabbit in my ears!"
>
> This made me think this was probably some sort of automatic translation,
> Looking at the menus on that site, also using completely broken Hebrew,
> made me think even more that this was an automatic translation. But why?
> Who would bother translating some sort of English Linux forum into Hebrew
> in an unreadable manner? Why wouldn't they clearly say something to this
> effect on the web page?
>
>
Reading the bottom of the page...
מופעל על ידי: vBulletin <http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2566249-1163318>,
זכויות יוצרים © 2000 - 2006, Jelsoft Enterprises בע"מ. תרגום של שפה
Google.<http://www.google.com/>

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.


> Web I clicked in the US flag on that page, I found the original English
> text of the forum. So now I'm sure this is an automatic translation
> (by the way, the original phrase was "I got some rabbit ears", referring
> of course to an antenna).
>
> I still wonder why this page exists in the first place... And why it is
> the first place on Google for somebody in Israel who wants to watch tv
> on linux...


It is there simply because the site, unix.com, has a high PR. The page is
known to Google by (probably) inter-site linking, and... there you go! :)

-- Shimi
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