MAIM, NOT KILL
22 Sep 2008 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneDear Mediocre Translator,
You may not be as stupid as the Moron Translator, but you're still a moron. Yes, I am aware that "schema" is the Norwegian word for "form" and that there is an apparent cognate with the English "scheme". In fact, they definitely have an etymological relationship. A historical one. After three hundred pages, I'd expect you to realise that they're talking about forms and not schemes in this document, if you had even the vaguest concept of the usage of either of these terms in English, especially since the the entire point of the whole thing is about form software. But I could perhaps have guessed that you were fooled by the false cognate and did not know the word "form" at all, except for the fact that for the first two hundred pages, you used the word with no problem.
So why have you started adding "scheme" in parentheses or with a slash after every occurrence of the word "form", which is usually more than once PER SENTENCE? Even if you could have forgotten already about the word you apparently knew oh, sixty pages ago, the translation memory didn't forget! It knows! And I know you were using it. So what gives, Mediocre Translator? Why did you suddenly start to ignore your own English knowledge and the translation software? Are you a prey to sudden doubts, and if so, why didn't you assuage them by checking Google before committing to the no doubt four hours or so of time you spent typing "/scheme" and "scheme set" alone? Tell me the truth, Mediocre Translator. It's not like my murderous rage could be decreased by your lying. Was it brain damage? Have you recently been dropped on your head? Were you, perhaps, high while translating? Or did you hire a homeless person who was blind and/or a speaker of neither Norwegian nor English to complete the translation for you? Did you resort to Babelfish? Or was it in fact, as I suspect, just to piss me off?
No love at all, and with every desire of locking you in a dark, cramped cupboard suffused with a disgusting odour for a while as punishment,
Cim
You may not be as stupid as the Moron Translator, but you're still a moron. Yes, I am aware that "schema" is the Norwegian word for "form" and that there is an apparent cognate with the English "scheme". In fact, they definitely have an etymological relationship. A historical one. After three hundred pages, I'd expect you to realise that they're talking about forms and not schemes in this document, if you had even the vaguest concept of the usage of either of these terms in English, especially since the the entire point of the whole thing is about form software. But I could perhaps have guessed that you were fooled by the false cognate and did not know the word "form" at all, except for the fact that for the first two hundred pages, you used the word with no problem.
So why have you started adding "scheme" in parentheses or with a slash after every occurrence of the word "form", which is usually more than once PER SENTENCE? Even if you could have forgotten already about the word you apparently knew oh, sixty pages ago, the translation memory didn't forget! It knows! And I know you were using it. So what gives, Mediocre Translator? Why did you suddenly start to ignore your own English knowledge and the translation software? Are you a prey to sudden doubts, and if so, why didn't you assuage them by checking Google before committing to the no doubt four hours or so of time you spent typing "/scheme" and "scheme set" alone? Tell me the truth, Mediocre Translator. It's not like my murderous rage could be decreased by your lying. Was it brain damage? Have you recently been dropped on your head? Were you, perhaps, high while translating? Or did you hire a homeless person who was blind and/or a speaker of neither Norwegian nor English to complete the translation for you? Did you resort to Babelfish? Or was it in fact, as I suspect, just to piss me off?
No love at all, and with every desire of locking you in a dark, cramped cupboard suffused with a disgusting odour for a while as punishment,
Cim
