We Don't Care if you come in peace
#SciFi #ShortStories
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We Don't Care If You Come in Peace - 365tomorrows
Author: Julian Miles, Staff Writer Someone’s coughing hard within the cloud of smoke and dust that conceals the aftermath of this epic confrontation. A hoarse voice shouts. “Hey, Storm Queen, blow this crud away. I can’t see.Julian Miles (365tomorrows)
This has got to be one of the best. In Wales, UK, there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. So, in this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads..... "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."
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Zio playing the O2 you may wish to sign and share
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As still as a mill pond
The pond of a small nature reserve reflects the trees at the far edge of the pond, there is very little movement on the water, above the trees is a clear blue sky, in the foreground is green vegetation.
#LongtonBrickcroft #Reflections #Lancashire
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Well done Preston, our first away win in nearly two years!
Does anyone here know of any apps which gives user-definable flashcards which they can use to disclose access needs like "I've become non-verbal, please type with me" etc? A friend used to have one but can't find it now.
We know of Stickman Communication cards, but this friend is looking for an app. Any genuine ideas welcomed.
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Never really hear people talk about brothers and sisters.
I know siblings is correct terminology, but it sounds/seems so impersonal!
Don't know where I'm going with this just thoughts after a couple of glasses of wine!
Have a good weekend everybody.
By Fred Brown.
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And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.
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* i will quoot to add a CW (already doing this)
* I won't be adding any other "context" when I quoot.
* I will block anyone who uses quooting to do a "look at this idiot" (edit: probably even if they are an idiot)
The word 'quoot' is very coot.
I find it useful in two other ways: translating when the original is in another language - this might include adding context where necessary, actually. And sharing beyond what can be federated (Friendica federates with Diaspora and Mastodon, but they don't federate with each other).
On my walk around the local nature reserve this morning, I saw a lot of wind fallen pears, I was going to call them crab pears, but apparently crab pears are very similar in looks to crab apples.
I didn't pick any of the windfalls up, as they are very hard and bitter to taste (tried this a couple of years ago!)
#LongtonBrickcroft
#NatureReserve
#Pears
#Windfalls
Okay since the Fedi guppy groups are gone and the new groups are still very small, I'm doing a new #introduction
I'm Mar, a future SFF and #historicalfiction indie author who reads Arabic, Chinese, English and French. I post a lot about #medieval #history and the books that I'm writing.
I also have a blog that I sometimes post on for longer historical musings.
I know about @histodons and @militaryhistory and am looking to #follow more historical and writer accounts.
Boosts are appreciated.
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I've just been for a quick walk around the local nature reserve, picked up some free pears, and I saw a few mushrooms.
#FreePears
#FediFunghi
#LongtonBrickcroft
#Lancashire
A leading Lancashire Reform UK councillor calls on a council to make flags on roundabouts official.
Or as I think, he says it is OK to drive roughshod over the flag!
BBC News - Lancashire Reform councillor calls for 'official' roundabout St George's flags - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq521…
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in reply to Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard) • • •Remember, in Portal 2, when the evil boss claims to be able to speak in multiple languages, and says (in perfect Spanish) : "you are using the translation software incorrectly. Please check the user manual".
*update:* a short video with this moment. youtube.com/watch?v=F3TG1AzBJY…
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in reply to Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard) • • •The man responsible for the most infamously bad Welsh road sign translation
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"English (detected)".
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in reply to Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard) • • •Every message has an audience and a transmitter. If the capabilities of either of these parties are not taken into account the message may as well not have been sent...
...or in this case would be better off if it had not.
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in reply to Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard) • • •The translator's auto-reply needed to be in multiple languages too, lol! 😂
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Spanish: 'entry forbidden to particular vehicles'
Basque: 'the word you searched for doesn't appear in the dictionary'
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Nur Wohngebiet.“
**Walisisch (unten):**
„Ich bin im Moment nicht im Büro.
Bitte schicken Sie alle zu übersetzenden Texte.“
👉 Offensichtlich hat jemand für die walisische Version eine automatische E-Mail-Antwort des Übersetzers auf das Schild gesetzt. 😅