|
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 13
stranger
|
OP
stranger
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 13 |
Okay, fellows, I've been playing around with Babel Fish, and here is the final result: "If they are less impossible, to most probably eliminate, these remainders must be the truth."
Whoever guesses the original phrase I typed submits their own phrase.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
Eliminating the impossible: This is probably the most famous of Sherlockian quotations. It appears in six different adventures in slightly different format:
1. Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth. (SIGN) 2. How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (SIGN) 3. It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (BERY) 4. When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (BLAN) 5. We must fall back upon the old axiom that when all other contingencies fail, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. (BRUC) 6. It is impossible as I state it, and therefore I must in some respect have stated it wrong. (PRIO) 7. Improbable as it is, all other explanations are more improbable still. (SILV)
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 13
stranger
|
OP
stranger
Joined: Mar 2003
Posts: 13 |
Yeah, I somehow managed to delete a line saying that was probably easy. Interesting game though, I thought.
Your turn.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
OK, this one should be reasonably easy too:
To be leads at that moment to the patriotic subject in dangerous parasite to Biology, before the wake psycopathic destruction of the direction and
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 13,803 |
...destruction of the direction and
And...? And? And???
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
>...destruction of the direction and And...? And? And???
Don't blame me, that's how it came out of Babel.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
Gessin, bro :)
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
I ran the phrase through several times, back and forth from the Asian languages, trying to get rid of the two dead giveaway words that persisted in every European language version. I did not totally succeed, so if you mind your p's and q's you'll get there.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542 |
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. -GBS
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2000
Posts: 4,757 |
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
/awake
edit: yep, Mike's da man. Definitely time for bed!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
Thanks, tsuwm. I do believe the babel baton is yours now.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
>You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. Not quite, but thanks for giving me another one for my collection.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 10,542 |
Its critical time you it do not go place there that you she is.
this is one of those banal phrases that may be improved by several passes through the fish. <g>
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,328
Members9,182
|
Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
0 members (),
1,273
guests, and
0
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|