Can anyone read spanish??

[Greco]

Can anyone tell us what the gist of this article is?

Thanks,

G


http://www.lamalla.net/canal/turisme/neu/article.asp?id=108584

[Jordahl]

i know people who have translators.

[Mike W.]

use http://babelfish.altavista.com/

its a translator

[Greco]

yeah i tried www.freetranslation.com and now the one you suggested and they don't translate it.

for example:

i inputed this.... (spanish to english)

Un dels avantatges de l’skiboarding és que s’aprèn ràpid i no requereix experiència. És un esport perfecte per als esquiadors, surfistes, i skaters o patinadors en línia. Apte per a totes les edats. L’skiboarding permet a l’esquiador fer acrobàcies, lliscar per territoris verges, derrapar o senzillament aprendre a conduir.


and got this back....

Dels avantatges of l?skiboarding és that s?aprèn ràpid i not requereix experiència. És esport perfecte to per als esquiadors, surfistes, i skaters or patinadors in línia. Apte to per to totes them edats. L?skiboarding permet to l?esquiador to fer acrobàcies, to lliscar to per territoris verges, to skid or senzillament aprendre to conduir.

-G

[Mike W.]

they probably use alot of spanish slang.. maybe its portarecan

[TallDoggy]

that one of the key advantages of skiboarding is that it can be accomplished with little to no experience.

Want to know more - get me good news on my ski's.

[TallDoggy]

Des de mitjans de la dècada dels 90, un nou esport de neu està trencant el cor dels esquiadors, els surfistes i els patinadors en línia o skaters. L’skiboarding, també conegut com snowblades, microskis, bigfoots, snow skates i figgles,combina el millor dels tres esports per oferir als amants de la diversió i la llibertat de moviments la possibilitat de gaudir de la muntanya com no s'havia fet mai abans.


In the middle of the 90's, a new sport has established itself on the slopes, popular with the crowd of in line skate users.. This sport is comprised of microskis, bigfoots, snowblades, offering a multitude of options for to diversify your mountain experience like never before.

[Greco]

Originally posted by TallDoggy
that one of the key advantages of skiboarding is that it can be accomplished with little to no experience.

Want to know more - get me good news on my ski's.


You got it. The latest news, 2 minutes old, is the boards are at JFK and are clearing customs now. Tibor expects them to be delivered here tomorrow, baring no unforeseen problems.

[McShane]

Greco-
there was one dude who said he's from spain on skiboarding list at yahoorgoups...

[griswald]

Hey g, just so you know, that isn't spanish, which could explain the problem with the translator. I'm not absolutely sure about the language, but it looks portuguese. So if you find a portuguese to english translator, you should be money. I"m at home with my slow as ass computer (clocking in at a whopping 26.4 kbps), so I won't be much help with translation. (By the way, sorry about the slow ass response time, but I'm never online at home because of said speed issues)

[Greco]

nope, not portuguese. talldoggy mentioned what it was, i think it's a version of spanish.

[TallDoggy]

I believe it to be either Catalan or Basque. Probably Catalan. Both are dialects of Spanish whereas Catalonian (Catalun) has french influences and Basque has Gaelic or Gaul influences. Both area's have attempted to secede from Spain several times.

The article is not that interesting. It describes the sport, then goes on to mention that there are currently no manufactures of skiboards in Spain.

Same stuff you read over and over - hottest new sport, easy to learn - great for diversifying your mountain experience. Specialty manufacturers. Yada yada yada. Nothing too exciting. I can translate fully if you like. However, I am not a Catalonian speaker - I simply use analyze the latin derivations of the words along with my Spanish and German knowledge to read whats written. I can do the same with Dutch, Swedish, Danish. Only European languages I cannot read are Hungarian and Finnish which have unknown origins. There is a theory of 7 osman tribes travelling europe - 5 being slaughtered and 2 founding Hungary and Finland - but this is unproven - and allow both languages show similarities in syllabic patterns - verb usage tends to vary widely.

[Greco]

I love it...such intelligence on this board!!!

Thanks Tall-one

-G

[McShane]

hmm, amusing, tall-bone! i guess you are right regardign Hungarian and Finnish being related, however the local theory is that they are from Urals (central Russia, Finno-Ugric languages). Osmans are (as far as i remember) more from present Turkey area. or maybe they originate from Urals? ;)

[Jordahl]

hey my intellegence is good!:D

[paddler57]

yes Jordahl. you is smart ;)

[Jordahl]

yeah i cant help it

[snobunny]

i thought i was smart then i went to school to be an engineer.

[paddler57]

Originally posted by snobunny
i thought i was smart then i went to school to be an engineer.

haha..I hear that. I was a business student rooming with a bunch of mechanical and electrical engineers. I used to complain about statistics every now and then until I started working on some of their thermodynamics problems.

[griswald]

hehe, thermodynamics. Ahh, the memories.

[snobunny]

i think that stuff should be banned along with differential equations. bad stuff. a course in designing skiboards and the physics of the sport would be cool

[paddler57]

go to graduate school and do your masters on it. be a trendsetter and land yourself a job with the defunct Journey guys to develop a revolutionary board to bring their company back from the ashes and create some competition in this market.

[griswald]

True, differential equations do suck, but I stopped with single variable calculus. Thermodynamics does have its uses. I've done a lot of work with NMR and MRI and it's a ton of thermodynamics (with a tiny bit of electromagnetism thrown in for good measure ;) )

[snobunny]

all i remember from the EM is the right hand rule. Right now I'm headed towards the automotive industry, but if I went into orthopedics, I may be able to fix my own knee

[paddler57]

i'm in orthopedics actually. on the sales side. joints, sports medicine, hand, trauma. all sorts of fun implantable products. I can't fix my own problems, but I know plenty of good guys that can , and I probably sell a product that helps fix it...haha.

[griswald]

Sorry, all I'll be able to do is read the MRI of your knee. But I have some friends going into orthopedics. The only thing standing in their way now is that little 7 year thing called residency. So basically they'll be able to fix your knee in a decade. :D

[Jordahl]

english please

[snobunny]

yeah, i'm not too excited about med school, so maybe I'll make cars instead

[griswald]

Med school isn't half as bad as people make it out to be; it's MUCH harder to get into med school than the school itself is. But I had the benefit of being at a school where there aren't any grades in the first 2 years. So if you wanna do it, I say go for it. But hey, making cars is pretty damn cool too, and you may make more money out of it in the long run.

[snobunny]

I just don't know how easy it would be to get in with a BS in Mech Eng. I might take the Pre-med curriculum on the side to make sure I have the classes, but I don't want to be an undergrad for that much longer, I mean I love college life but I need to get a life sooner or later. I'd love to go through med school, but I don't know if that's what I want to end up doing. I may try to get in with a surgeon an kinda job-shadow.

[paddler57]

Originally posted by Jordahl
english please

I thought you were smart? haha

[griswald]

It doesn't matter what you major in as long as you take the pre-med curriculum. Schools actually like it when you don't major in a stereotypical field (like biology) when you apply to med school. I have a friend who majored in English who got accepted at UCSF from out of state, which is probably the single hardest thing to do when applying to med school. And I think there are 3 people in my class (out of 100) who were enginnering majors. But you should definitely shadow somebody. It's the single best way to make an educated decision, and it really helps in your application. You will almost invariably get asked during interviews some permutation of "how do you know you want to be a doctor?" or "what experience in a hospital do you have?". It's not needed to get accepted, but it helps.

[McShane]

snobunny! are you at osu? one friend of mine is studying engineering stuff at osu. he's your age or maybe a year younger - you might know him

[snobunny]

really? I'm a sophomore in ME here at OSU. Small world!

[CrazyDave]

you're only a sophmore? change now before it's too late! ME jobs are drying up...i'm looking for one right now, i graduate in may. if i could turn back the clock 5 years i wouldn't choose engineering. not because i don't like it, but because the future looks so bleak. i love engineering but it's really quite disheartening, all our manufacturing is going to asia and product engineering isn't far behind. there's much more money in medicine too, if that's important. best of luck with whatever you decide to do!

[Jordahl]

i thought you were smart haha

in my own lil special way

[snobunny]

yup, I'm a 2nd year. I'm taking Strength of Materials and Dynamics as well as a EE class. Fun stuff!! I think I may go into the med field, but I'm not sure. I really like the automotive stuff I've been working on, so I want to do that, but unless I work for Toyota or Honda, I don't think there is much of a job market out there here in the states. I've worked for Cummins Diesel before and I'm going there to intern again this summer. That might help me to secure a job for when I graduate, but that's still a little ways off.

[CrazyDave]

i use to think that way too, then reality kicked me in the face...