Supposedly (authenticity not guaranteed) in the 1970s the idea of computer language translation was going to be dead easy — imminently. One early test from English to Russian to English put in the original text “Out of sight, out of mind.” Translated to Russian and back, it returned, “Blind and crazy.”
Do any of you remember a game (or maybe it’s better called a demonstration) of a bunch of people sitting in a circle and the 1st person would whisper some story in the next persons ear, who would in turn pass it onto the next, and so forth…. that no one else could hear… then when it got to the last person who would tell what HE heard, compared to the story started by the first…. and the end story was nothing like the first?
As I mentioned here recently, the bird is a bit of a birdbrain. They will all be better served (pun intended) if their next meal is a delicious dinner of Barbecued Bird.
wjones over 2 years ago
That’s not the way BC said it
C over 2 years ago
Chinese whispers.
sandpiper over 2 years ago
Puts a different slant on the relationship.
Its just me over 2 years ago
Isn’t that how twitter works?
Troglodyte over 2 years ago
Lost in translation.
Chithing Premium Member over 2 years ago
April 1st, 1964. I guess this was supposed to be a run up to Valentine’s day.
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
Nooooooooo!
blakerl over 2 years ago
High maintenance woman, will wreck your health every time.
b.john71 over 2 years ago
the bird is in league with “the fat broad”
ekke over 2 years ago
Supposedly (authenticity not guaranteed) in the 1970s the idea of computer language translation was going to be dead easy — imminently. One early test from English to Russian to English put in the original text “Out of sight, out of mind.” Translated to Russian and back, it returned, “Blind and crazy.”
Those idioms will get you every time.
suelou over 2 years ago
Do any of you remember a game (or maybe it’s better called a demonstration) of a bunch of people sitting in a circle and the 1st person would whisper some story in the next persons ear, who would in turn pass it onto the next, and so forth…. that no one else could hear… then when it got to the last person who would tell what HE heard, compared to the story started by the first…. and the end story was nothing like the first?
suelou over 2 years ago
Had no idea how much censorship went on in cartoons too!!
paullp Premium Member over 2 years ago
As I mentioned here recently, the bird is a bit of a birdbrain. They will all be better served (pun intended) if their next meal is a delicious dinner of Barbecued Bird.