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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Babel fish game #106607 06/29/2003 9:48 AM Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 13 U.S.A. Canis Domesticus stranger Canis Domesticus stranger Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 13 U.S.A. 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106608 06/29/2003 9:55 AM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina 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) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106609 06/29/2003 10:10 AM Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 13 U.S.A. Canis Domesticus stranger Canis Domesticus stranger Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 13 U.S.A. Yeah, I somehow managed to delete a line saying that was probably easy. Interesting game though, I thought. Your turn. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106610 06/29/2003 6:33 PM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina 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 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter fishing #106611 06/30/2003 9:56 AM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 11,074 Likes: 2 Worcester, MA Would that be 2 B V ~ 2 B ... (to use an old symbolic logic notation) and going on a line or three ? (For newer members - check out http://www.wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=95744 for information about Babelfishing) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: fishing #106612 06/30/2003 10:23 AM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina Nope, not Will, its GBS Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106613 06/30/2003 12:05 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 ...destruction of the direction and And...? And? And??? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106614 06/30/2003 12:08 PM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina >...destruction of the direction and And...? And? And??? Don't blame me, that's how it came out of Babel. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106615 06/30/2003 9:26 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick 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 :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106616 06/30/2003 9:52 PM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106617 06/30/2003 10:11 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. -GBS Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106618 06/30/2003 10:18 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick 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! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106619 06/30/2003 10:29 PM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina Thanks, tsuwm. I do believe the babel baton is yours now. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106620 06/30/2003 10:32 PM Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina sjm old hand sjm old hand Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 742 Akina >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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Babel fish game #106621 07/01/2003 1:50 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass 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> Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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