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Yowsa! Web translator upsets humor-impaired June 2, 2000 By Brian Livingston

A free Internet service that displays Web sites as if written in hillbilly talk has shut itself down because too many corporations have said, in effect, "It ain't funny."

The Dialectizer suspended its service of "translating" Web sites two weeks ago. The service converted entire Web pages into "Redneck, Pig Latin, Elmer Fudd," and other dialects.

The conversions didn't change any material on the original site. Instead, a temporary translation was displayed in a new browser window on a user's screen.

But the owners of some translated sites were (as the Redneck converter would put it) as ticked off as a weasel in a blender.

Viewed through the Dialectizer's hillbilly prism, for example, one well-known corporate slogan becomes, "Th' quality goes in befo'e th' name goes on."

Dialectizer creator Samuel Stoddard said in a statement, "It is not worth it to me to sacrifice my peace of mind and fend off the continual onslaught of distraught corporations and Webmasters threatening legal action."

-- Anon (anon@anon.anon), June 03, 2000

Answers

Sounds like most of the doomers around here have more of a sense of humor than those corporations. too bad there wasn't a 'jive translator'.

-- Billy Vyper (Billy_Vyper@postlink.net), June 03, 2000.

Actually, these translators aer neither a doomer nor a polly thing; they're just hilarious. The one I found would do Hillbilly, Jive, Pig Latin, and others.

I translated my own pages on a whim and almost had to be revived from laughing so hard. My wife didn't know what was wrong.

Look around. I believe the code was written by a college student, and there are actually several translation sites. If I still had the link for the one I used, I'd post it.

-- Stephen M. Poole, CET (smpoole7@bellsouth.net), June 03, 2000.

What does this have to do with Doomers?

I used to have a Jive translator for ASCII files and the results were hilarious!

It would be great to see Web sites "jived".

-- Flash (flash@flash.hq), June 03, 2000.

This stunks like a ho in heat. Ah wants to raps mah tar arn around yo haid.

-- (billybob@Poole's.trailer), June 03, 2000.

dialectizer

-- tc (ynot@link.now), June 03, 2000.

Now ah knows whut t'use t'translate mah next internashunal policy recommencashuns t'Jesse Helms.

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), June 04, 2000.

tc, Thanx a Zillion!

-- Soul Bro (what@it.is.mama!), June 04, 2000.