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   triplenet | Feb 06, 2004 06:38am | #1

   Could you translate this for us?

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   UncleDunc | Feb 06, 2004 09:41am | #2

   He's probably doing the best he can. How about this:

   Has anyone used the Board Buddies with the green wheels on shapers supplied by Woodcraft or Grizzly? Are they any good?

   Or possibly:

   Has anyone used the Board Buddies with the green wheels, supplied by Woodcraft or Grizzly, on shapers? Are they any good?

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   JeffKurtz | Feb 06, 2004 04:02pm | #3

   Bob,

   Only nine posts in nearly two years, and the best you can come up with now is an insult to a new member???

   Shame one you!!!!!!

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   JeffKurtz | Feb 06, 2004 04:33pm | #4

   bvacs,

   Welcome to Knots!  Hope you enjoy the forum and will feel free to ask any questions you may have and jump in to give advice once in a while.  (So sorry about the first reply you received.)

   I did a search of the archives here, and really couldn't come up with much on the green Board Buddies, although it seems a lot of folks like the yellow ones for table saws.  I did find one customer review at Amazon.  Here's the link:

   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000223VJ/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_f/102-2615380-6692931

   Again, welcome, and good luck!

   Jeff

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   robkelly1 | Feb 07, 2004 06:50am | #5

   Welcome, bvacs! If English isn't your native language, post in French, German, Italian, Hrvatski, Czech, Hungarian or any language in Roman characters and one of us will translate for the others. This board won't take Cyrillic, Farsi/Arabic or Greek characters.

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   UncleDunc | Feb 07, 2004 07:18am | #6

   >> ... one of us will translate for the others.

   That's a mighty generous offer. Do you know for a fact that we have all those languages covered? :o)

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   robkelly1 | Feb 07, 2004 08:12am | #7

   I can translate French, Italian, German, Spanish and Hrvatski. Also Greek,  Farsi and Arabic, but only if the original alphabet is used. My best languages are French, German, Farsi, Greek and Hrvatski, in that order, but I can do the others slowly with a dictionary. From watching this board for a couple of years, I'm sure that others have abilities greater than mine, especially in the languages I can't handle. Also, I'm really capable in Latin and reasonably so in Middle Egyptian (like 18th dynasty) but I'm not expecting posts in those languages.

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   dirtstirrer | Feb 07, 2004 08:48am | #8

   Rob, hate to sound like a knuckle dragging redneck (I am what I am), but where would I hear Hrvatski spoken as a native language?  Steve

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   DougE | Feb 07, 2004 05:40pm | #9

   I'm guessing but I expect its Yugoslavian or Croatian

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   Tao | Feb 08, 2004 03:54am | #11

   >>Rob, hate to sound like a knuckle dragging redneck (I am what I am), but where would I hear Hrvatski spoken as a native language? 

   Croatia, for one.

   Rob's facility is remarkable, but  I'd bet there are a lot of people who have language skills on this board.  I can at least read most of the Germanic and Romance languages, and my son in law's family is Croatian.  Plus I have friends who are native speakers of a lot of languages and who would do simple translations for me.  I really doubt that I am much of an exception.  Lots of military folks get language training, and many military and diplomats' kids have a tendency to collect languages, plus we have an awful lot of immigrants for whom English is a second, third, or fourth language.

   Michael R.

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   dirtstirrer | Feb 08, 2004 10:35am | #13

   Michael,

   After I posted that, the answer dawned on me.  I remember it from one of Rex Stout's books. 

   I personally do not have that gift, but people who do amaze me.  I was stationed for AIT with a bunch of Army linguists, incredible the skill they seemed to take for granted.  There was that one Polish linguist, she was... but I digress.  I even took the exam to get into linguist training, but as I said before, no talent.

   There certainly is a diverse group of people here isn't there.

   Have a good evening,Steve

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   robkelly1 | Feb 09, 2004 11:28pm | #17

   Been gone for the weekend. Hrvatski is Croatian. It used to be SerboCroatian,  but since the fighting, the Serbs call it Srpski, even though its the same language. A lot of Albanians speak it too, since hardly anyone speaks Albanian. The best way to learn a language is to get a long haired dictionary.

   Edited 2/9/2004 4:15:16 PM ET by rob

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   joinerswork | Feb 08, 2004 02:24am | #10

   Hi Rob,

   Illigitimi non carborundum!

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   JeffKurtz | Feb 09, 2004 04:37pm | #15

   Illigitimi non carborundum!

   Thanks for reminding me of that wonderful phrase!  One of the great things about learning Latin is that one can have so much fun with some almost totally useless.

   When my Alma Mater was preparing for its centennial celebration, they had a contest for students to design a new coat of arms.  (The old one was dreadful.)  A few friends of mine with artistic ability drew one that was quite nice, and included a new school motto as well: Fidem scit.  All the students and most of the faculty thought it was just wonderful.  Still, it didn't win the contest.  Oh well, parva leves capiunt animas.

   Jeff

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   robkelly1 | Feb 09, 2004 11:56pm | #18

   Leaving aside the legitimacy of Illigitimi non carborundum, in the same vein we have semper ubi sub ubi. But as Virgil wrote, Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

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   JeffKurtz | Feb 10, 2004 12:55am | #19

   Rob,

   Olim?  I'm thoroughly enjoying this right now.

   As for that terrible pun (which I must confess, I've used a hundred times), I can only reply in the words of Horace, nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus interpres.

   Jeff

   (ed. note: spell check doesn't like Latin.)

   Edited 2/10/2004 7:43:25 AM ET by Jeff K

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   robkelly1 | Feb 10, 2004 01:31am | #20

   Almost the words of Horace--but I believe he preferred curabis. One of the benefits of a classical education is that you have 2000 years of literature to put today into perspective. Everytime I see Arafat, or Khatemei, or Sistani (the ayatollah, not the chapel) in the media, I can't help calling Aulus Gellius to mind, Video barbam et pallium; nondum philosophum video. 

   Edit/addition: Actually Gellius didn't say it, he just reported that someone else said it. Probably Herodes Atticus.

    Rob

   Edited 2/9/2004 5:50:48 PM ET by rob

   Edited 2/9/2004 9:37:42 PM ET by rob

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   JeffKurtz | Feb 10, 2004 03:58pm | #21

   Thanks.  Curadis?  I believe that's French......

   That Gellius quote could really get me going, but I prefer to leave that to the folks in the Cafe.  Reading those names, however, one thinks of the words of Seneca, "Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorum."

   But, enough of this; after all, this is a woodworking forum.

   Jeff

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   MichaelPB | Feb 08, 2004 04:23am | #12

   So, a lot of book learning but I think there is a book you still need to learn, I am pretty sure the author is Emily Post!

   I just wish we could all sit around and really teach you a lesson.

   Michael

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   forestgirl | Feb 09, 2004 10:35am | #14

   Michael, is it possible you got Bob (post #2) mixed up with Rob??  You might want to go back and check.forestgirl Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)  you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)

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   MichaelPB | Feb 09, 2004 08:15pm | #16

   Yep, sure did.

   I meant to insult the jerk, not the nice guy...

   Michael