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Postby ozzy72 » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:47 am

Microsoft has reduced the first five books of Homer's Illiad from 37,000 words to 32 lines of text-speak. The lines, "Sing, goddess, of the accursed anger of Achilles, son of Peleus, which brought uncounted anguish on the Achaeans", are rendered: "Wot hapnd when Agamemnon n Achilles had a barny?"
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Sounds like M$ are employing some real intellectuals ::)
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Re: The Iliad (according to

Postby Smoke2much » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:41 am

Huh???

Did you forget to take the white tablet Ozzy?

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