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Old 10-13-2005, 06:38 AM   #40
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Okay now I think I can see what KaVir is asking, thanks to Threshold (who also didn't quite grasp the point but explained the "non-grasping" better than KaVir did).

To me, it is the same as if someone asked me how I would translate Russian to English. I'm not interested in doing it, but IF I was - I would suggest they find someone who knows Russian and English.

It -can- be done. But, I don't know Russian, so I have no idea how I'd go about translating one alphabet into a completely different alphabet. I don't have enough data to start with.

With that cloud thing, I don't understand it. I can't read it, I lack the data. That's why I gave the example I gave. To suggest that *IF* that example explained what the cloud pattern meant, THEN that was how I'd turn it into text. And IF that was what it meant, then turning it into text isn't difficult at all.

Obviously, that isn't what the cloud pattern meant. I have no idea what the cloud pattern means. And as Threshold says, I don't have enough interest in learning precisely what it means to translate it to text. Just like I'm not interested enough in Russian to translate it to English. I just use the clunky standby Babbelfish for that, or I'll ask a Russian who knows English to do it for me.
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