I might try my hand at a translation with better flow... although, remember, the original is a chat log. Chat logs read in retrospect usually don't flow as well as natural conversation!
Certainly if one is fluent, that's a perfectly reasonable desire - I'm not, but I'm sure there's a significant amount lost in that translation process.
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Am I the only one who wanted to read the original Japanese?
A link to the original (scroll down a bit):
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/5...
I might try my hand at a translation with better flow... although, remember, the original is a chat log. Chat logs read in retrospect usually don't flow as well as natural conversation!
Something like this, plus or minus English chat-slang:
(EDIT: dangit, I forgot that HN chops up linebreaks. hold on) (DOUBLE-EDIT: Text file from my Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9485376/chattranslation.txt)
Reading the original Japanese wouldn't have helped me, but I did desire a better translation. It's barely understandable as it is.
There's already a link to it on the page. Click on "[ruby-dev:5173]"
Certainly if one is fluent, that's a perfectly reasonable desire - I'm not, but I'm sure there's a significant amount lost in that translation process.
Please don't comment for the sake of commenting, without adding anything to the discussion. Thanks.
No need to be a jerk and jump to conclusions...I thought I added something with that comment (apparently not!)