[Coco] names for the CoCo

[Tom Seagrove]

I believe you are correct.  My guess was a spell check (translation) which
changed CoCo to Coconut...

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Fred D. Provoncha
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:07 PM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] names for the CoCo

Fred D. Provoncha wrote:
> > Message: 8
> > Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:58:29 -0600
> > From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
> > Subject: [Coco] names for the CoCo
> > To: cocolist for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Message-ID: <20090211005857.B62FE20A13 at qs281.pair.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> >
> > This guy must have researched every bit of 1 minute before writing
> > these articles, repeatedly calling the CoCo a CoCoNut. Everything
> > seems ok but the name. http://www.speedylook.com/Computer_Color.html
> > -- Roger Taylor
> >
> > http://www.wordofthedayonline.com
>
> I have a suspicion that this page was translated into English from 
> another language, most likely by one of those online automated 
> translation tools. I know Google has such a tool. There's a pattern of 
> grammatical errors that gives it away. Perhaps the translation tool 
> found the term "Coco" in the original foreign text and erroneously 
> translated it as "Coconut".
>
> Just a theory :-)
>
> Fred Provoncha
> Stansbury Park, UT
>
>
In fact, the more I look at this, the more I think the original text was 
probably in French.

Fred Provoncha
Stansbury Park, UT



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