me, squinting at Chinese prose: she inserted a... soft... plate... into the computer? a what?
[it dawns on me that this book is from the 90s] 馃捑 
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@0xabad1dea Into the electric brain the soft plate slides!
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We found strange things in Floppy drives and video recorders doing servicing.
There used to be U-matic, Philips N1500, N1700, EIAJ 1/2" cartridges (one spool), Betamax and briefly a later Philips. Not just VHS.
Floppies came in many sizes and formats.
@0xabad1dea Perfectly normal
@0xabad1dea Soft Plate sounds more like the 80s 馃槈 The little hard plates in 3.5" format took over at the end of the 80s.
@0xabad1dea Perhaps Salvador Dali reincarnated as a Chinese woman and the computer made the mistake of asking her to insert the time?
@[email protected] I wonder if you could get a good rendition of Azimov era scifi describing the modern world by deliberately translating back and forth from unrelated languages focussing on literal translations.
"The lightning carriage accelerated down the complimentary path with torque unmatched by the older confined burn machines..."
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@mavnn the Chinese word for computer is "electric brain" 馃槀
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@[email protected] I recently discovered that here in Italy you can sell nude properties, which amused me no end. Literal translations are such an unending source of fun. (It refers to buying a property but granting the current resident leave to continue living in it, and is used in situations where a pensioner is running out of money but doesn't want to leave their house)
@0xabad1dea I would guess "soft plate" equals "floppy disk"?
(and yes, I remember some "this is a computer" books during the 1980s describing floppies in terms that lead one to think of something like a tennis ball inside a plastic bag)
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