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Posted 10/16/09 - 06:42 PM: Subject: Babel Fish	#1
I think it comes from a Robert Heinlein story - perhaps someone will remind me. Take a nice little aphorism, like: "A stitch in time saves nine." Then you run it through babel fish say, English to Dutch to French to Greek to English. And out the other end comes: A pain saves in the new time. So the game is to work out the original from the result. Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to make sense of this: It'? ; a s malade wind that does not cook no one [kath] one good likely. Simple, huh?
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Posted 10/16/09 - 06:55 PM:	#2
So... just for fun... I ran the example in reverse order. A preserved pain to the new time. And that was REVERSE ORDER!!!! English to greek to french to dutch to english.
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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Posted 10/16/09 - 07:26 PM:	#3
This one has been to China and back twice, and is almost recognisable. The hell has not looked like looks like woman' Despises s is angry.
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Posted 10/16/09 - 07:33 PM:	#4
Ohhh! An angry woman's despite looks worse then hell?
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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Posted 10/16/09 - 07:42 PM:	#5
Wait... that's not it... It reminds me more of the: A angered wife is worse then God's anger; Hell.
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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Posted 10/16/09 - 07:53 PM:	#6
unenlightened wrote: So the game is to work out the original from the result. Your mission, Jim, should you choose to accept it, is to make sense of this: It'? ; a s malade wind that does not cook no one [kath] one good likely. It's an ill wind that blows no good. unenlightened wrote: This one has been to China and back twice, and is almost recognisable. The hell has not looked like looks like woman' Despises s is angry. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
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Posted 10/16/09 - 07:56 PM:	#7
The spoon sugar which is only goes toward the help about downstairs.
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Posted 10/16/09 - 08:00 PM:	#8
unenlightened wrote: The spoon sugar which is only goes toward the help about downstairs. Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.
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Posted 10/16/09 - 08:00 PM:	#9
(By the way, am I right about these or are you just posting new ones anyway?)
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0 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 10/16/09 - 08:00 PM:	#10
A spoonfull of sugar helps the medicine go down! Oh... and circles and tangents are equivlant to P vs. NP functions. Who want's to collect that millenium prize?
"...There was a writer who asked why it was that when we find positive experiences we say that only the physical facts are real, but in negative experiences we believe that reality is subjective. He made an example of those who say that in birth only the pain is real, the joy a subjective point of view, but that in death it is the emotional loss that is the reality." - Tony Ballantyne, Recursion. _____________________________________________ Truth is want. - The internal state of matters. Truth is Need. - The external state of affairs.

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