Dabbler looked at his computer screen in perplexity, confused as to the stir his poor attempts at German translation had given rise to. He wondered why Fitzgerald had made such a big issue of the Italian post, which, after all, wasn't recent. It was from "Fri Oct 6 21:37:25 2000," actually. Quickly, he entered a new post, hoping to rectify the error, ending it with the message: "Hi, Fitz (et al). No one would be happier to see Volkov return than I, but this wasn't him, it was me. That's right, I'm the 'German Translater.' Sorry for the confusion. I just noticed in Adama's list of episodes written in German an invitation for authors to try translating them, and did so. The only reason I posted the results to an option of the Italian ep was that that was where I found the first open option. Sorry -- I think all will agree that the effort using Babelfish was inadequate, at best -- for some reason, that program seems to have more trouble with German than just about any other language."
There Dabbler stopped. Obviously, using a pseudo-sig wasn't such a good idea after all in this case, he thought.
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