My friend Ethan is insanely busy. He runs a company, he consults, he skis, he climbs mountains, he’s got a new wife he’s trying to keep happy, he’s trying to buy a house, he has to deal with Bay Area traffic every day and he generally doesn’t get a ton of down time. But one thing he did have time to do today is to put the photo caption from that Eri Yoshida/Tim Wakefield article from this morning through Google Translate. The result:
Knuckle ball “upstream” Wakefield (49) Photo By jointly met with Yoshida Eri
Related articles: Eri-chan knuckle knuckle king “against our Webmaster ~ icon”
Wakefield will henceforth be referred to as “Knuckle Knuckle King” in this space. Anyone who doesn’t conform to this rule will face discipline.
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- BCTF - Mar 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM
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KKK huh? I guess it fits well in Boston
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- Grant - Mar 2, 2010 at 4:56 PM
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oh snap. burn.
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- Craig Calcaterra - Mar 2, 2010 at 4:57 PM
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Maybe we’ll eschew abbreviations . . . .
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- Julian - Mar 2, 2010 at 5:16 PM
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Brevity is for suckers.
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- James - Mar 2, 2010 at 5:30 PM
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Don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun, but in case you wanted to know the real translation:
Knuckleball “master” Wakefield (49) meets with Eri Yoshida. Photo by AP [Japan's version]. Related article: Knuckle-Eri-chan meets with Knuckle-King.
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The word I translated as “master” really means “originator” or “head”, but the nuance is more like “the head honcho” or “mentor”.
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- dirk pitt - Mar 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM
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This is stupid Craig… delete it and save the space.
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- BCTF - Mar 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM
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Being a knuckleball he does get his fair share of swinging strikouts so maybe thats just what a good half inning looks like for him.
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- Craig Calcaterra - Mar 2, 2010 at 5:36 PM
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See, now that’s just no fun.
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- Steve B - Mar 2, 2010 at 11:16 PM
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Everything, and I repeat, EVERYTHING, is better when run through Google Translate.
(runs through Google Translate and back into English from Japanese)
All, I repeat all, Google is better when done through a translator.
(does it again)
All I am, Google is better done through an interpreter, and repeat everything.
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- Steven Ellingson - Mar 3, 2010 at 12:14 AM
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yeah, we are running out of space on the interweb. Besides oil and Pandas, it’s our most important endangered resource.
