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Date: 2010-06-02 11:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-02 12:55 pm (UTC)Why, yes, yes it is!
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm
It's a lovely story (of course it's an old story as it's from October 2008, but for some reason it's trending high on the BBC News website again today) and nice to see it again :-)
As a technical author, it's always the sort of thing that strikes fear in the heart, showing what can happen to your finely crafted prose ;-)
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Date: 2010-06-03 01:43 am (UTC)I just love that the guy had a Welsh-only holiday message on his machine. You'd think being a translation service and all he might have thought to include all languages he was translating to/from!
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Date: 2010-06-03 10:02 am (UTC)