Spanish; what is going on ?

[alpertron]

Originally Posted by ewmayer

Ejemplos específicos, por favor. Los gerbos pueden ser muy traviesos, pero aparentemente ellos se esfuerzan para algún grado de la certeza en sus traducciones.

Some examples:
Necesito ayude a correr etapa 1 y 2 separadamente should be Necesito ayuda para correr las etapas 1 y 2 por separado.

Un otro corolario más a algo importante should be Otro corolario más de algo importante

Buenos días, alpertron should be Buenas tardes, alpertron (after afternoon).

Buscando muy fuerte para los primas de Mersenne is nonsense. I don't know how to translate it even to Spanish.

And so on.

[Xyzzy]

Well, we know for certain alpertron is not the culprit here.



Gerbil1: Yo quiero Taco Bell!
Gerbil2: Yeah!

[ewmayer]

Originally Posted by alpertron

Some examples:
Necesito ayude a correr etapa 1 y 2 separadamente should be Necesito ayuda para correr las etapas 1 y 2 por separado.

Un otro corolario más a algo importante should be Otro corolario más de algo importante

So, you were in fact easily able to figure out what the intended meaning was here, right?

[You want grammatical precision, you'll have to pagar más dinero a los gerbos.]

Buenos días, alpertron should be Buenas tardes, alpertron (after afternoon).

Now that's just nit-picking.

Buscando muy fuerte para los primas de Mersenne is nonsense. I don't know how to translate it even to Spanish.

I make it out as "Searching very strong for the female cousins of Mersenne" - clearly someone looking for long-lost mathematical family relations - makes perfect sense on a forum of this kind. Am I misreading it?

[alpertron]

I would have written Buscando detenidamente números primos de Mersenne. For the context you give above you should know first the cemetery where his female cousins lie.

[Fusion_power]

I dunno Alpertron, Ernst may just know the cemetery where Mersenne's female cousins are interred. The question is "Why does he know?"

[ewmayer]

Did I - erm, I mean, el gerbo picaro - say anything about about *first* cousins, a.k.a. primeros primeras? Huh, huh, did I ... - I mean it?

Yeah, uh-huh ... I ... - I mean it - didn't *think* so.

[Spherical Cow]

The "Feliz Gravidad ..." on the levitation/gravitation thread was particularly clever. Since I was not 100% sure that Gravidad was gravity, I googled "gravidad"- Remarkably, there were over 400 results, mostly in Spanish of course, and the Mersenne forum was # 3 in the list! The gerbils are remarkably good at being highly ranked by the search engines...

Norm

[Xyzzy]

The gerbils are remarkably good at being highly ranked by the search engines...

Search engine technology and manipulation fall within the realm of the recalcitrant trolls, not the gerbils.

We noticed just now that Google lists our forum as their first result for "gravidad".

[alpertron]

Originally Posted by Spherical Cow

The "Feliz Gravidad ..." on the levitation/gravitation thread was particularly clever. Since I was not 100% sure that Gravidad was gravity, I googled "gravidad"- Remarkably, there were over 400 results, mostly in Spanish of course, and the Mersenne forum was # 3 in the list! The gerbils are remarkably good at being highly ranked by the search engines...

Norm

Another error: grávida in Spanish means pregnant woman. The translation of gravity is gravedad. Pregnancy can be translated to gravidez, the word gravidad does not exist.

[Spherical Cow]

Originally Posted by Xyzzy

Search engine technology and manipulation fall within the realm of the recalcitrant trolls, not the gerbils.

The recalcitrant trolls possess a depth of understanding that would make my old high school literature teacher proud (She was immersed in allegories, metaphores, analogies...). Not only have they made this forum the # 1 result out of 100,000+ when you search on "Bali Mashing" (but with no quotes), they have also arranged for the sponsered links that show up to be Bali bras, panties, and lingerie.

It boggles the mind-

Norm

[alpertron]

Well, if you look for the word factorization you will find that my site is third out of 4.300.000 results. When Wikipedia was not very popular my site was on the top. I'm not an expert on "search engine optimizations".