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Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2011

jembatan!

Jembatan!
means BRIDGE
in indonesian.
google suggested it,
after i pushed through a
number of early suitors,
clamoring to answer my djembe query.
i kept with my earnest initial impulse.
jembat, jembata; these were nothing.    ----------- > jembatan
was the auto-assist.
image search yields
what i'm looking for,
by the looks of it...
a bunch of bridges,
mostly foreign by the looks.
i think,
"jembatan probably means
'bridge,'" i'm thinking...
i search google for google translate.
i find that.
i input "jembatan."
google translate autodetects an
indonesian word.
i hit "translate."
it "translates to english."
the result:
"BRIDGE."
I was right.  It feels good to do research.

Jembatan Barelang,Batam,Indonesia

Sunday, May 1, 2011

trying to spell Upstate New York accent, variations

wull hell, whudyanooh...  huhh, i guess it don't need one yafterall.  so...  uy guess i'll check you throwgh on thiat...  and...  thyat'll bring ya toooo...

wool thyiatsuh smuart muove

muyckle mihler

Whuht in sam hillerya dohin?

Ah, youh criack me uhp sumtimes...