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Old June 26th, 2005, 08:44 PM
Jesper Lauridsen
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Default Guess the original language

From a note in a hotel elevator:
"We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished
at present in our stairway"

Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks?
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Old June 26th, 2005, 08:53 PM
Runge
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Nothing to do with travelling

"Jesper Lauridsen" a écrit dans le message de
news: ...
From a note in a hotel elevator:
"We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished
at present in our stairway"

Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks?



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Old June 26th, 2005, 09:16 PM
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Jesper Lauridsen wrote in news:42bf0592$0
:

From a note in a hotel elevator:
"We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished
at present in our stairway"

Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose,

speaks?

Italian? Babel fish produces some really wild Italian to English.

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Old June 26th, 2005, 10:55 PM
Deep Foiled Malls
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:16:16 -0500, jcoulter
wrote:

Jesper Lauridsen wrote in news:42bf0592$0
:

From a note in a hotel elevator:
"We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished
at present in our stairway"

Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose,

speaks?

Italian? Babel fish produces some really wild Italian to English.


I'd say it sounds like Italian. "to refer it" could come from "si
riferisce", and "is accomplished" would be a lousy translation of "è
realizzato".
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Old June 26th, 2005, 10:57 PM
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:53:07 +0200, "Runge"
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Nothing to do with travelling


And the last time you contributed something was.......
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Old June 26th, 2005, 11:59 PM
Lennart Petersen
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"Runge" skrev i meddelandet
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Nothing to do with travelling

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Travelling a hotel elevator has definitely something to do with travelling.


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Old June 27th, 2005, 12:56 AM
Alan S
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On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:53:07 +0200, "Runge"
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Nothing to do with travelling


Why are you complaining - or was that praise? It should suit
you perfectly.

When was the last time you posted anything relevant to
travel here?


Cheers, Alan, Australia
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Old June 27th, 2005, 02:27 AM
Lennart Petersen
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"Jesper Lauridsen" skrev i meddelandet
...
From a note in a hotel elevator:
"We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished
at present in our stairway"

Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks?

----------------
I've seen such mysterious translations written in Russia so that's my
proposal.


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Old June 27th, 2005, 09:49 AM
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Alan S wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:53:07 +0200, "Runge"
wrote:

Nothing to do with travelling


Why are you complaining - or was that praise? It should suit
you perfectly.

When was the last time you posted anything relevant to
travel here?


Well, we did learn the amazing information that it takes an hour to fly
from London to Edinburgh, though the _significant_ add-on of getting to
the airports etc. wasn't factored into that.

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Old June 27th, 2005, 10:08 AM
Keith Anderson
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On 26 Jun 2005 19:44:18 GMT, Jesper Lauridsen
wrote:


From a note in a hotel elevator:
"We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished
at present in our stairway"

Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks?


Judging by this and some other gems on this site:

http://www.engrish.com/detail.php?im...ate=2005-04-19

I'd hazard a guess that it's Japanese.



Keith, Bristol, UK

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