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Cided to make myself an exercise and made the translation of one of the funny old parodies written by Yuriy Nesterenko (thanks Crocodile for the link :druzja: ). Original text is here:
http://masterrussian.net/mforum/view...233035#p233035
I would be very grateful if someone checked it for errors (if I made some style errors their correction would be greatly appreciated too). :)
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Digital bible.
1. In the beginning was the word, and the word was 2 bytes, and there were nothing else.
2. And God made a division between the one and the zero, and God saw that it was good.
3. And God said, Let there be data: and there was data.
4. And God said, Let the data come together in its place, and made floppys, and hard drives, and CDs.
5. And God said, Let there be computers to put floppys, [s:20c0yxbl]and[/s:20c0yxbl] hard drives[s:20c0yxbl],[/s:20c0yxbl] and CDs in. And God made computers, and gave them THE name ‘hard’, and made a division between hard and soft.
6. SoftWARE(?) was still not there, but God quickly corrected himself and made programs big and small, and said them: Be fertile and increase, and make the memory full. (might say: fill up the memory of all computers --- or something like that...)
7. But He was tired of making programs himself, and God said, Let us make programmer in our OWN image, [s:20c0yxbl]like us[/s:20c0yxbl]: and let him have rule over the computers, and over the programs, and over data. And God made THE programmer, and put him in His computer center, to [s:20c0yxbl]do[/s:20c0yxbl] work in it. And He took the programmer to the folder tree, and gave the programmer orders, saying, You may freely run the programs from any folder of the tree, but from the folder labelled "Windows" you must not run anything! [s:20c0yxbl]cause ‘must die’[/s:20c0yxbl]. (that didn't make any sense...
As I remember from the Genesis... perhaps this would work: "But the programs in the Windows folder you must not run, or you will surely die.. (the computer will surely cease to work).
8. And God said, It is not good for the programmer to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him. (Could say: I will make him a help-mate, to use the programs that he writes. (this uses a well known expression from the bible - "help mate" = the woman)) And He took one of the bones from the programmer where was no brain, and made into a user, and took him to the programmer, and the programmer said, Let his name be "User". And they both were using the naked DOS, and they had no sense of shame.
9. Now Bill was wiser than any beast of the field. And he said to the user, Has God truly said that you MUST not run the programs from any [s:20c0yxbl]folder of the tree[/s:20c0yxbl] of the folders of the tree? And the user REPLIED, We may run any programs from the folders of the tree, but from the Windows folder we may not [s:20c0yxbl]execute anything[/s:20c0yxbl], or we will surely die... And Bill said to the user, Let us argue about the taste of oysters with those who didn’t eat them (this expression does not exist in English, got to think of something else)
On the day when you run Windows you will be as gods, because you will be able to make anything with just one mouse click. And the user saw that Windows were a delight to the eyes and desired IT, BEcause IT makeS knowlege unnecessary. So the user installed ir on his computer; and then told the programmer that it WAS cool, and the programmer installed it too.
0A. And the programmer went to look for new drivers, and the voice of God came to the programmer, saying, Where are you? The programmer said, I am looking for new drivers, cause there aren’t any under the naked DOS. And God said, Who gave you the knowledge about drivers? Have you run Windows? And the programmer said, The user who[s:20c0yxbl]m[/s:20c0yxbl] you gave me, said that he wants programs only under Windows from now on, and FOR THAT REASON I installed them. And God said to the user, What have you done? And the user said, I was tricked by the deceit of Bill.
0B. And God said to Bill, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field, and there will be war between you and the programmer, by him you will be scolded with swear words and he will be buying Windows from you.
0C. To the user he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and barren your wallet, you will be using crooked programs, and will not be able to live without the programmer, and he will be your master.
0D. And to the programmer he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of the user, the computers are cursed on your account, bugs and viruses will come up from them, in pain you will clean them up, with the hard work you will get your code debugged.
0E. So God sent them out from His computer center, and set password.
0F. General protection fault.
