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Reply #450 –
Being a good news however I regret to inform my dear Ersi that Estonia lost against Portugal by 7-0 in football.
Maybe next time you should learn how to play the game before trying to play against us.:)
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #451 –
The good news is that now I know that Estonia still has a football team. I hadn't heard about them for a few years.

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Reply #452 –
Go Devils! Damn those Italians! :P

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Reply #453 –
Quote from: Belfrager on
Being a good news however I regret to inform my dear Ersi that Estonia lost against Portugal by 7-0 in football.
Maybe next time you should learn how to play the game before trying to play against us.:)
Portugal? That's a province of Spain, isn't it?

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Reply #455 –
Keep him in mind for the next postman olympics. I think it's in 2018.

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Reply #456 –
Americans are putting chips in grasshoppers. Fantastic.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #457 –
They're doing what?

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Reply #458 –
http://www.dn.pt/sociedade/interior/gafanhoto-com-chip-no-cerebro-e-o-proximo-detetor-de-bombas-5272263.html
You just need to translate it which is an impossible task for you. Maybe with a chip in the brain like the grasshopper  :lol:

This may help you
http://labs.seas.wustl.edu/bme/raman/research.html
What for? homeland security of course.

Zillions of cyborg grasshoppers all over the place. More good news from America.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #459 –
Quote from: Belfrager on
which is an impossible task for you.
It might be impossible to do a stellar job, but I reckon I understand the broad lines a bit like in e.g. Swedish (except Germanic languages come much more naturally than Romance languages).

Besides, even with nothing but knowledge of English one can start to string together something vaguely sensible out of the words one recognizes. Take this random paragraph for example:
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A equipa, que inclui Srikanth Singamaneni, engenheiro de materiais, e de Shantanu Chakrabartty, investigador em computação, vai começar por monitorizar a atividade neural de gafanhotos para determinar os sinais correspondentes a cada odor, o que depois vai ser tratado em computador. E será a partir dessa base de dados que se fará o resto.
We can recognize the following English words: include, engineer of materials, investigator, computer, monitor, activity, neural, determine, signals, corresponding, odor, treat, computer (and in context, base de dados sounds suspiciously like database)

We already know from your message that gafanhotos must be grasshoppers, so at this point we've got a materials engineer and a computer researcher monitoring the neural activity of grasshoppers to determine signals corresponding to odors, which will be treated (analyzed or maybe inserted, one presumes) in a computer. From there they'll do the resto with a database.

Add in other languages, e.g., French équipe is team and probably the same word as equipa, vai is probably from the the same verb as vais (as in aller, to go), partir is depart, starting from, and your biggest enemy is false friends. ;) Our basic overview of what the text is probably about can then be amended as follows into an incubating translation, even though we don't speak Portuguese:

The team, comprised of (which includes) materials engineer Srikanth Singamaneni and computer researcher Shantanu Chakrabartty, will start monitoring (will go monitor) grasshopper neural activity to determine the signals corresponding to each (?) odor, which then will be inserted (treated) in a computer. And starting from this database the rest will be done.

Of course it would make more sense to skip the English entirely and just take French as the main point of departure, but I wanted to make a statement. Portuguese is not Chinese. :P

PS Spoken Portuguese, on the other hand, may well be impossible.

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Reply #460 –
As bad as spoken English, sometimes. :left:

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Reply #461 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Of course it would make more sense to skip the English entirely and just take French as the main point of departure, but I wanted to make a statement. Portuguese is not Chinese.  :P
:lol:
Well done.
Of course you're not an American or, even worst, an English.

But there you have, Americans prepare to invade the planet with cyborg insects. For our safety...
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #462 –
Quote from: Belfrager on
But there you have, Americans prepare to invade the planet with cyborg insects. For our safety...
Are all Europeans paranoid? :)
Or just the (our?) Portuguese? Of course, Brazilians are most of the Portuguese now — yet their sires reject them! (I await the return of the prodigal father… :) )
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Reply #464 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
we can breed our own cyborg insects. We have the technology.
Forget it, just use carnivorous tulips, that's enough against the American insects.
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #465 –
Can they be carnivorous cyborg tulips?

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Reply #467 –
After winning the European Football Championship, Portugal won the European Roller Hockey Championship by beating Italy at the final.

Roller Hockey is like Ice Hockey but much more difficult to play and players don't wear those sissy protections (except for the goal keeper).

If it continues like this, soon I'll be tired of winning European Championships...
A matter of attitude.

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Reply #468 –
Well it is good so many people can be given a boost especially the state the country is in.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #470 –
Think carefully especially when one is an eccentric.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

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Reply #471 –
Howie, you are perhaps the only (purportedly) English-speaking person to which I'd recommend Strunk and White's little book of do's and don't's… :) But, of course, it's too many words and you wouldn't understand anyway, even when they get it right!
So. Carry on! You're a debit to your race, sir.
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Reply #472 –
Strunk & White is awful: the so-called advice has no connection to the reality of English. I'd recommend it to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is alright.

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Reply #473 –
Quote from: Frenzie on
Strunk & White is awful
That was the point, Frenzie: Simple rules for simple minds!
(I prefer Karen Elizabeth Gorden's "The Transitive Vampire," when it comes to handbooks… :) )
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Reply #474 –
Congratulations Brazil, extraordinary opening ceremony at your Olympic Games.  :yes:

(even if I suspect Barulheira is not too happy with that...)
A matter of attitude.