XPost: sci.electronics.design   
   From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Cursitor Doom  wrote:   
      
   > On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:05:08 +0100, Jeroen Belleman   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   > >On 12/20/24 22:16, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   > >> On Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:32:14 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
   > >> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> Cursitor Doom  wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> Do we have any French speakers on the Panel? I have a radio that's   
   > >>>> badly in need of realignment and the only instructions I can find are   
   > >>>> a set in French. I can't use Google translate because they've used too   
   > >>>> many abbreviations in the text and they won't parse any sense.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> I'm not a particularly fluent French speaker, but I could probably sort   
   > >>> out some technical instructions in French   If you want to send them to   
   > >>> me, I'll have a go (you should be able to work out my e-mail address).   
   > >>   
   > >> Many thanks indeed for your kind offer. I suspect it will probably   
   > >> require a native French speaker to decypher, but who knows?  :-)   
   > >   
   > >I'm not a native French speaker, but I may be able to help anyway.   
   > >Fire away.   
   >   
   > Well that's interesing as I had did think you might respond given some   
   > of the background you've revealed here in the past. I don't have the   
   > relevant page here right now, but will make it available tomorrow. It   
   > is only the one page and only one column of that, so nothing too   
   > onerous. I did show it to a genuine French chum of mine a few weeks   
   > ago, but he was stumped by the technical side of it and couldn't   
   > assist much, unfortunately. So it appears it needs someone who can   
   > speak French fluently *and* understands the process of radio   
   > alignment. I kind of guessed that might be you....   
      
      
   Many years ago Practical Wireless published an article about the French   
   819-line high-definition television service which had been translated   
   from French by someone who knew nothing about television or radio   
   terminologyy.  It was hilarious nonsense but I eventually managed to   
   translate it back into French so that I could understand it.   
      
   If you post your text here, we can all have a go at it.   
      
      
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