Meiriongwril wrote:

I think it's a CIA conspiracy ....

I think you're an ass.

I've taken the advice of some of the posters here and added a translator again.  This one seems to work fairly well, at least translating to German.  The only hitch I found is that it translates proper names to German if the name is also an English word.  I left instructions that I hope are valid when someone opens the blog under the translator.  I would appreciate it if those with English as a second language would let me know how well it works with your language.  For that matter, if English is your first language and you speak another fairly well, I'd appreciate it if you let me know how it works.  Thanks!

kamo1126

I tried translating a portion of your site with IM Translator, but it came out nonsense.

I was in Tokyo for a couple of days about 44 years ago.

My thanks to vagabonzo and llandewi for their language suggestions.  I would like very much to be able to do that but, unfortunately, it's not possible.

In the United States, we don't often have occasion to use a foreign language unless we are in import/export or maybe travel.  I had Spanish in Grammar School, but I've had no reason to use it unless I want to eavesdrop (listen secretly) on Puerto Ricans here.  They usually speak much better English than I Spanish so it's pointless to try to struggle through a conversation in Spanish when English would be easier for both.

I spent 29 months as a soldier in Germany and once spoke fairly decent German.  A couple of years later, I hitch-hiked and rode a bicycle through Europe for almost a year.  For about 3 months of that I lived in Stuttgart.  While there, I started learning Italian and Spanish through “Dreizig Stunden Italienisch"  and “Spanisch in Dreizig Stunden."   I did this so I wouldn't forget German while learning the others.  Needless to say, I didn't learn that much in this way, because, after leaving Stuttgart, I was traveling most of the time and getting no opportunity to converse.

In the last 40 years, I have had no opportunity to converse in any other language but English.  As a result, I've forgotten most of my German.  I discovered a German blog “Alles Schall und Rauch."   I liked what I could understand of it and started to try to relearn German.  I realized that I just didn't have time for that.  I tried a couple of translators, but found I had to spend almost as much time translating the translations.  If I hadn't had some grounding in German, I would have thought the site gibberish (nonsense).  For that reason, I'm not putting a translator on my blogs.

Llandewi, I think this is the most appropriate place to ask for readers (visitors).  Isn't that the idea of asking for flags?  If the only purpose is to say, “ha, ha, I've got more flags than you, then I think there are some very childish

Here's another jerk who joins just to spam for a commercial outfit.  I will make up lies about louisvuitton-outlet products being of grossly inferior quality and their complaint department being very arrogant and unhelpful. It might be a good idea if everyone did this to discourage this lowlife activity.  I'd like to see it.