Merry Christmas everyone \o/

Bit late but merry christmas to all of you too. Gf has been sick for several days .. great x-mas that was.

Old tune? ... NO! Never.

Merry Christmas and Happy New 2004th Year, I say.

haven't been too active on the forum for a while now, and i'll tell you why: while everyone is getting drunk unlimitedly i am getting drunk on a limited lvl, both because of financial reasons and time-reasons. Which then combine in a job i took from some richgirl (both her parents are notaries), namely translating a 50-page French text for her into Dutch. She's studying to become a civil engineer btw. So i was like "hey, French, rich parents= katching!, sure, keep it coming!", but then it turned out that the text is positively CRAWLING with technical terms.... It's about a medieval French basilique, and describes every friggin build detail, from the roof over the ornaments on the pillars to the floor patters and the materials used for the walls etc. etc. and more of this boring shit.


Now, they first went to a professional translator with it, and he apparantly was monstrously expensive (they count by the word), so they looked for someone else. As i will obviously be paid less than the translator would have been, i hope he was extraordinarily expensive. There's a good chance he was tho, as i don't think that parents who are both notaries with their own businesses will be easily repelled by most prices. So; deductively i say= i will be a relatively rich man by the end of the holidays, mwuahahahaha! Or something.


P.S. this is the church i'm translating the text on: http://www.art-roman.net/conques/conques.htm it's a nice enough building apparently, but i have a developped permanent repulsion by now.

From my personal experience I can say that people studying civil engineering are above all else interested in concrete, and chuches are best left for people studying architecture.

With difficult mechanical engineering texts I use this online translator (http://www.systranet.com/systran/net), wich has a dictionary for mechanical engineering, maybe some of the technical terms found in your text can be translated with it.
You have to sign up and then you get an e-mail from them with commercials about their products about every month, but you can easily set a filter to transfer their mail to your junk folder immedeately, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Tnx for the link man, but i don't think i'll need it, have 2 major N-F and F-N dictionaries as well as a F-N dictionary specifically for architectural terms, so i think i'm set up pretty well. The most difficult part is to visualize stuff, but i got the website(s) with pics and comments in French to help me on that.

I don't think the student i'm doing this for likes this stuff, but she has to learn it anyways hehe. Besides, medieval churches are wayz0r cooler than concrete stuff. Not to mention sturdier. These things are built to last into eternity, they're the pwnz0r! medieval churches > concrete. Btw, are there a lot of really big cathedrals and such in Holland? I'm just wondering with the protestant humbleness- thing. Over here the building motto was bigger, better, higher and more expensive. Gotta love catholicism.


Man, look at these rox0rs demon sculptures from the church:

Drunkard is supended at his feet and is forced to throw up his booze



Man burned alive by a demon with a hare's head. (lmao)





One of the damned is being skinned alive, after which a demon devours his skin




A demon holding a harp attached to the tongue of a damned.





How cool is that shit huh?

Nice sculptures, I prefer medieval kathedrals to concrete as well, but luckily I'm no civil engineer.
And we do have kathedrals from the time before the "beeldenstorm" here (like the DOM in Utrecht), we just destroyed or stole everything of value in them when we "converted' them.

Hehehehe...So, basically, the buildings are still there but every almost all the fancy shit has been trashed or removed, ah well, pity. That's what you get with protestantism! Instead of doing things the good old, corrupt, catholic way. Wanna get into heaven? Pay the church a lot of cash and you're good. Want to be crowned emperor by the pope, but he refuses? Create your own pope and have him crown you. History is always stranger than fiction, not to mention funnier.