[Coco] names for the CoCo

[Fedor Steeman]

Hi guys,

I know what this is, and I think Fred is right that it is a
computer-translation. It is in fact the translation of the French
wikipedia article on the Coco, that has the exact same wording, as far
as I can see, just in French:

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinateur_Couleur

There are many site that serve wikipedia pages, but it is the first
time I see one that translates other language articles. I wonder why?
Maybe it is to elude the GNU license?

Cheers,
Fedor


2009/2/11 Paul E. Jones <paulej at arid.us>:
> The site appears to have private domain registration, but a quick search
> revealed that speedylook.com runs on the same Canadian server with these
> domains and appears to be the same owner(s):
> http://www.encyclopediefrancaise.com/
> http://www.talkpedia.com/
> http://www.premiumlinkdir.com/
> http://www.nanocashadvance.com/
> http://www.usadebt.org/
> http://www.myetymology.com/
> http://www.dapyx.com/
> http://www.dapyx-soft.com/
> http://www.citizendia.org/
> http://www.themesforblogs.com/
> http://www.allmythemes.com/
>
> Perhaps the most useful site is dapyx.com.  I guess Bogdan Giusca (or,
> Bogdan Giuşcă) (bogdang at hotpop.com or bogdan2005 at yahoo.co.uk) owns these
> sites.
>
> These sites clearly exist primarily to collect ad revenue, so I guess
> accuracy is not the prime objective.
>
> Paul
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
>> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Tom Seagrove
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:38 PM
>> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] names for the CoCo
>>
>> I believe you are correct.  My guess was a spell check (translation)
>> which
>> changed CoCo to Coconut...
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
>> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
>> Behalf Of Fred D. Provoncha
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:07 PM
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] names for the CoCo
>>
>> Fred D. Provoncha wrote:
>> > > Message: 8
>> > > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:58:29 -0600
>> > > From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
>> > > Subject: [Coco] names for the CoCo
>> > > To: cocolist for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> > > Message-ID: <20090211005857.B62FE20A13 at qs281.pair.com>
>> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>> > >
>> > > This guy must have researched every bit of 1 minute before writing
>> > > these articles, repeatedly calling the CoCo a CoCoNut. Everything
>> > > seems ok but the name.
>> http://www.speedylook.com/Computer_Color.html
>> > > -- Roger Taylor
>> > >
>> > > http://www.wordofthedayonline.com
>> >
>> > I have a suspicion that this page was translated into English from
>> > another language, most likely by one of those online automated
>> > translation tools. I know Google has such a tool. There's a pattern
>> of
>> > grammatical errors that gives it away. Perhaps the translation tool
>> > found the term "Coco" in the original foreign text and erroneously
>> > translated it as "Coconut".
>> >
>> > Just a theory :-)
>> >
>> > Fred Provoncha
>> > Stansbury Park, UT
>> >
>> >
>> In fact, the more I look at this, the more I think the original text
>> was
>> probably in French.
>>
>> Fred Provoncha
>> Stansbury Park, UT
>>
>>
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