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> syntax highlighting, or as I prefer to call it, spitzensparken blinkelichtzen Google Translate reckons this means "peak parking", is that a correct translati

> syntax highlighting, or as I prefer to call it, spitzensparken blinkelichtzen Google Translate reckons this means "peak parking", is that a correct translation? If so would somebody mind explaining what parking has to do with syntax highlighting? And if not, what is the correct translation?

PeterisP 8y ago
It's not something to be translated, it's a mock language. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
- Sean1708 8y ago
  Ah, thank you. I suppose there are no prizes for guessing which generation I belong to then?
rarestblog 8y ago
Not a native German, but probably this: "spitzen sparken blinken lichtzen" -> "pointed sparkles flashing lights"
- mirimir 8y ago
  Or maybe "brightly high-lighted pointers".
- ncmncm 8y ago
  No, it means "spitting sparks". Like you see coming out of the control panels in the original Star Trek, when they got shot by Klingons. I guess they remrnbered about circuit breakers when they built the later Enterprisen.
raister 8y ago
I would call it Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz but that's me.
- TuringTest 8y ago
  Du must be Deutsch
keedon 8y ago
This is mock German - Google translate is probably taking spitzens parken as peak parking. But it is probably a refernce to blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
abrawill 8y ago
I'm not German, but I'd say it's close to: bells and whistles. Or more directly: sparkles and flashing lights. Seems like this Wikipedia entry is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights This was entertaining: ": ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN." Seems to fit what our author was going for too.
Traubenfuchs 8y ago
German native speaker here with lots of assumptions. For the first word, "spitze" can be "peak", but also the pattern/cloth as seen when you google doily. In this context, that's probably what he means. That means the "s" belongs together with the "parken", making it the English "spark". "sparken" could be "making sparks" For the second word "Blinklicht" ist "blinking light", "Blinklichtchen" would be the diminutive, it's probably written "Blinkelichtzen" to make it look ever more German. He appears to be kind of an unpleasant person.
rawland 8y ago
: ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN. "This silliness dates back to least as far as 1955 at IBM and had already gone international by the early 1960s, when it was reported at the University of London's ATLAS computing site." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
  Heh. Google translate actually recognises some of those, er, terms: ATTENTION! ALL TOURISTS AND NONTEKNISH LOOKENPEEPERS! THE COMPUTER MACHINE IS NOT FOR THE GEFINGERPOKEN AND CENTER DIG! ORWISE IS EASY TO SNAP THE SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN AND POPPENCORKEN WITH TIP sparken. IS NOT FOR TRADE IN STUPID HEADS. THE RUBBER TIPS SIGHTSEARS KEEP THE COTTON PICK HANDS INTO THE POCKETS. ZO RELAXING AND WATCHING THE FLASHING LIGHT. I'm kind of amazed that it can go even that far. But mostly, I'm amazed at the fact that I can just pick up and read a completely made-up language, or a severely garbled real language, depending on your point of view. We got some way to go before machine translation can match human language abilities, eh.
  - atombender 8y ago
    It's actually semi-correct German with "germanified" American words. "DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER ..." is grammatically correct. But gefingerpoken isn't a German word, obviously, though it's close to gefingert (fingered). Blinken means flash, and lichten means lights, so blinkenlicht at least means soemthing, though blitzende Lichter would be more idiomatic.
    - em-bee 8y ago
      blinklicht is the german term for the flashing turn indicator on a car. and any other light that periodically turns on and off can be called that.
em-bee 8y ago
those seem to be based on german words. in german that reads as: pointy sparks, blinking lights.

PeterisP 8y ago

It's not something to be translated, it's a mock language. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

Sean1708 8y ago
Ah, thank you. I suppose there are no prizes for guessing which generation I belong to then?

rarestblog 8y ago

Not a native German, but probably this: "spitzen sparken blinken lichtzen" -> "pointed sparkles flashing lights"

mirimir 8y ago
Or maybe "brightly high-lighted pointers".
ncmncm 8y ago
No, it means "spitting sparks". Like you see coming out of the control panels in the original Star Trek, when they got shot by Klingons. I guess they remrnbered about circuit breakers when they built the later Enterprisen.

raister 8y ago

I would call it Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz but that's me.

TuringTest 8y ago
Du must be Deutsch

keedon 8y ago

This is mock German - Google translate is probably taking spitzens parken as peak parking. But it is probably a refernce to blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

abrawill 8y ago

I'm not German, but I'd say it's close to: bells and whistles. Or more directly: sparkles and flashing lights. Seems like this Wikipedia entry is relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights This was entertaining: ": ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN." Seems to fit what our author was going for too.

Traubenfuchs 8y ago

German native speaker here with lots of assumptions. For the first word, "spitze" can be "peak", but also the pattern/cloth as seen when you google doily. In this context, that's probably what he means. That means the "s" belongs together with the "parken", making it the English "spark". "sparken" could be "making sparks" For the second word "Blinklicht" ist "blinking light", "Blinklichtchen" would be the diminutive, it's probably written "Blinkelichtzen" to make it look ever more German. He appears to be kind of an unpleasant person.

rawland 8y ago

: ACHTUNG! ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS! DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN. "This silliness dates back to least as far as 1955 at IBM and had already gone international by the early 1960s, when it was reported at the University of London's ATLAS computing site." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights

YeGoblynQueenne 8y ago
Heh. Google translate actually recognises some of those, er, terms: ATTENTION! ALL TOURISTS AND NONTEKNISH LOOKENPEEPERS! THE COMPUTER MACHINE IS NOT FOR THE GEFINGERPOKEN AND CENTER DIG! ORWISE IS EASY TO SNAP THE SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN AND POPPENCORKEN WITH TIP sparken. IS NOT FOR TRADE IN STUPID HEADS. THE RUBBER TIPS SIGHTSEARS KEEP THE COTTON PICK HANDS INTO THE POCKETS. ZO RELAXING AND WATCHING THE FLASHING LIGHT. I'm kind of amazed that it can go even that far. But mostly, I'm amazed at the fact that I can just pick up and read a completely made-up language, or a severely garbled real language, depending on your point of view. We got some way to go before machine translation can match human language abilities, eh.
- atombender 8y ago
  It's actually semi-correct German with "germanified" American words. "DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER ..." is grammatically correct. But gefingerpoken isn't a German word, obviously, though it's close to gefingert (fingered). Blinken means flash, and lichten means lights, so blinkenlicht at least means soemthing, though blitzende Lichter would be more idiomatic.
  - em-bee 8y ago
    blinklicht is the german term for the flashing turn indicator on a car. and any other light that periodically turns on and off can be called that.

em-bee 8y ago

those seem to be based on german words. in german that reads as: pointy sparks, blinking lights.