Great website on Fiat Spider designer- Can you help?

ICF · Post by **ICF** » Mon May 22, 2006 11:05 pm

http://www.fiat124spider.it/Assemblea_2004.htm

Mr. Tom Tjaarda, designer of the Fiat 124 Spider and a number of other great cars (among them the Pantera, Fer. 330GT & 365 California Spider) will be our guest at ItalianCarFest this Sept.

One of our entrants passed along the site listed above. Can anyone assist translating?

-Jerry Lee Phillips
'76 124 Spider
'81 Spider 2000

Gerard Del Monte · Post by **Gerard Del Monte** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:10 pm

If you go to world.altavista.com, you can get to the Babel Fish translation page, works great. Just copy text from Tjaarda's URL into the block, choose Italian to English, hit the button, presto chango.

Joe Clemente · Post by **Joe Clemente** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:08 am

What is it you want to know about Tjaarda from this page? I can translate but that's a lot of text.

If you can sift through their grammatical errors, Gerard's idea will at least allow you to get the jist. I'm not kidding about the grammatical errors. These online translators are awful. You should see some of the syntactic abortions I see on my site meter when people translate my own website from English to Italian. Even the actual Italian caption I have at the bottom of my page gets mutilated. Don't ask me how this occurs but it's brutal.

TVST*R · Post by **TVST*R** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:22 am

You guys are funny...
Just Google it and it comes up in English....
T

Gerard Del Monte · Post by **Gerard Del Monte** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:10 pm

Well, as a test I just copied some text from Tjaarda's Web site into Babel Fish, then did the Google translation thing. Both were completely absurd, I don't know which was worse.

ICF · Post by **ICF** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:10 am

Thanks.
-Jerry

Joe Clemente · Post by **Joe Clemente** » Thu May 25, 2006 12:59 am

TVST*R wrote:You guys are funny...
Just Google it and it comes up in English....
T

Funny... Right.

Well there you have it.

TVST*R · Post by **TVST*R** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:01 am

If you Google Tom all the sites come up in english.
T