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  dorpus, 16 Mar 2005 @ 12:41pm

  
  

  Foreign News as Crack Cocaine

  Man, crime abroad happens differently from here, in both funny and terrible ways. It's so addicting. In this foreign language article, scammers in Osaka are calling families, telling them they kidnapped their daughters, and threatening to sell them into sexual slavery in the Philippines unless the family pays ransom.
  
  http://news18.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/dqnplus/1110993112/
  
  In this article, which I haven't seen mentioned in US media, an Iraqi serial killer who killed 21 boys, known as the "desert vampire", was executed in public by a vigilante jury -- first by lashings, then getting stabbed in the back with a sword by the brother of one of the victims, and finally having one of the mothers tie a nylon rope around his neck, and hanging him up high on an industrial crane.
  
  http://news18.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/dqnplus/1110992561/
  

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  A-Chhooo!, 16 Mar 2005 @ 12:50pm

  
  

  Disclaimers

  That is what disclaimers are for. Anybody relying on free, half-arsed translation tools for anything mission-critical or of any importance - deserves what they get. And paid for!

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  blorpus, 16 Mar 2005 @ 7:04pm

  
  

  translating Dorpish

  Has anyone figured out how to translate Dorpish into English?

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  Anonymous Coward, 17 Mar 2005 @ 12:28am

  
  

  No Subject Given

  "how long will it be until someone freaks out over a mis-translation and tries to sue for libel?"
  
  
  Don’t know… how long do you suppose it will take the French courts to find a translation of something originally written in French and translated into anything else?
  
  
  

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