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The Newlywed Spiders
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Female Spider to the Male,
'Tis the prettiest little parlour in many a tale;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I've a many curious things to show when you are there.”
“Oh no, no,” said the little Male, “to ask me is in vain,
For who goes up your winding stair
-can ne'er come down again.”
(with apologies to Mary Howitt)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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They probably met at work, they're both web developers.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I'm considering what mite be another spin on this. Venom I'm finished I'll let you know.
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I'm working on some logic related to recognizing certain phrases or translations.
I've tried both the Google and Microsoft translators, but question the results.
Is there a corresponding word in French for trip?
The translators keep giving me "voyage" even when I use it in context.
My circuit breaker is tripping off... it is not going on a Caribbean cruise. 
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le voyage
travel, trip, journey, voyage, tour, touring
la excursion
excursion, trip, outing, ramble, pleasure trip, tramp
la sortie
output, exit, outlet, release, outflow, trip
le parcours
course, route, journey, career, way, trip
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"la sortie" is probably the most appropriate. Thank you.
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Exit seems a good idea for a fuse blowing! Perhaps "Dans le noir" would be more appropriate?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Might not be any such word.
Consider they stopped creating the ten's values at sixty, and for seventy, you needed sixty-ten. If that was a difficult stretch - expect "others".
Best solution: just make something up. See if anyone notices.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Best solution: just make something up. See if anyone notices.
Extra points if you can work "mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles" into the text. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sounds like the pleadings of a Parisian virgin - (insert points here)*
* Puns and double entendre's, accepted.
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le elepantine? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Would "déclencher" work? (trigger, start, set off)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Dejoncteur is the trip switch, so....
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we say in french 'disjoncteur' means electrical switch or the state you are when you brake neural circuit in your brain or getting crazy 'je disjoncte'
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Ouais, c'est vrai. 
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I aggree.
I think "déclencher" is the good word for a circuit breaker.
"Disjoncter" could do the work too but it is related too overvoltage or over-intensity.
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But what else than overvoltage or overintensity could trigger a circuit breaker to trip off?
I think "disjoncter" is the perfect word. At least it is the one I would use, and any french people would understand it perfectly.
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Mikael Andres wrote: I think "disjoncter" is the perfect word. At least it is the one I would use, and any french people would understand it perfectly.
In french, we would say :
Le disjoncteur s'est déclenché. orLe circuit a disjoncté. We can hear :Le disjoncteur a disjoncté. too but in french, we don't like to repeat the same sound twice.
It's unpleasant to the ear... but it is perfectly syntaxically correct.
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Déclancher is the good technical word for it. Altough people will use Ouvrir (Open) and Fermer (Close) in normal conversation for circuit breakers as they would do for a light switch.
Hth
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littleGreenDude wrote: Is there a corresponding word in French for trip?
Avez vous certain el es dee?
Marc
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Paste that in the translator and you get
Do you have certain el es dee?
LSD?
Nope. No drug issues here. 
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virée should do it.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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