2009/9/17 Nadav Har'El <n...@math.technion.ac.il> > While looking on Google for information about digital TV on Linux, > I searched in Hebrew "לינוקס טלוויזיה דיגיטלית" (linux digital television) > and I found the following forum, in Hebrew: > > http://www.unix.com/iw/whats-your-mind/87912-digital-tv-rocks.html > > I found the subject of the thread, "טלוויזיה דיגיטלית הסלעים!" very amusing > (a funny translation of the English phrase "Digital TV rocks!"), but the > text of the forum was even more bizarre, containing really broken Hebrew > and the phrase that really got my attention was "יש לי ארנב באוזניים", > "I have a rabbit in my ears!" > > This made me think this was probably some sort of automatic translation, > Looking at the menus on that site, also using completely broken Hebrew, > made me think even more that this was an automatic translation. But why? > Who would bother translating some sort of English Linux forum into Hebrew > in an unreadable manner? Why wouldn't they clearly say something to this > effect on the web page? > > Reading the bottom of the page... מופעל על ידי: vBulletin <http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2566249-1163318>, זכויות יוצרים © 2000 - 2006, Jelsoft Enterprises בע"מ. תרגום של שפה Google.<http://www.google.com/>
It appears that the page is being automatically translated via Google Translate by the forum software, simply because you have /iw/ ( = hebrew ) in the URL. Change the iw to 'fr' and you get the same page in French, etc etc. > Web I clicked in the US flag on that page, I found the original English > text of the forum. So now I'm sure this is an automatic translation > (by the way, the original phrase was "I got some rabbit ears", referring > of course to an antenna). > > I still wonder why this page exists in the first place... And why it is > the first place on Google for somebody in Israel who wants to watch tv > on linux... It is there simply because the site, unix.com, has a high PR. The page is known to Google by (probably) inter-site linking, and... there you go! :) -- Shimi
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