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Posted by fishy on Sun Jul 15th at 5:28pm 2007

I got kicked off of a server earlier today, something to do with football, and my ping bulging out. At least the online translation thinks so.

Original kick message

? quote:
warte ein bischen bevor ins spiel rein kommst, da baucht sich der ping ab. versuchs nochmal.

translation

? quote:
wait bischen before in this pass the ball walks in, there bulges out ping. versuchs over again.

Is this accurate, and if so, wtf sort of mushrooms are in season over there?




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Posted by Stadric on Sun Jul 15th at 6:42pm 2007

This is what Google turns up for "Ping bulges out".
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I can't see what's wrong with that.


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Posted by Andrei on Sun Jul 15th at 9:39pm 2007

Online translators can be great for a laugh, but sadly they're useless when you need them for something even remotely serious. I wonder if anyone actually uses them. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

The message says something like "please wait a little before joining the game, so that the ping lowers (or something like that. no idea what <baucht sich ab> means and neither does my dictionary...but what the heck COULD it mean?). try again", so yeah the translation is totally worthless.



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Posted by reaper47 on Mon Jul 23rd at 2:04pm 2007

"Wait a bit before you get in game, then the ping goes down (?), try it again."

Pretty much word-by-word (including obscure typos like a missing "you" and the word "baucht" which I think means "braucht" or "baut" ("needs" or "builds") referring to a decreasing ping)


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Posted by fishy on Mon Jul 23rd at 10:43pm 2007

I thought it was calling me a bitch. I'm pretty sure it's the same word that I had in a bind I used in an admin_make_silly_vote plugin thing. The bind set up a vote, asking if we should slap (the last person I'd looked at) around like a bitch. I remember there being some discussion between the german admins, as to the best way of translating this for me, and I'm sure they settled on bischen. So, it would probably be in the right context, too.




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