I work as a newspaper copy editor. and one of my many happy duties with a great potential for mischief is laying out columns pages.
I lived for a year in Strasbourg, France, where French and German coexist in relative harmony, which gave me the idea for "Dear Babelabby," a simple "Dear Abby" column translated from English to French to English to German and back to English. I wanted to share this with all you Babelfish fans, along with my sincere hopes that no one uses the Babelfish for anything other than entertainment purposes. Believe me, even a first round of translation (French to English, English to German) produces some bizarre results.
Hope y'all enjoy it!

"MARKING SIGNS OF THE WRITING CONE OF CALL TRANSMIT THE SUPPORT IN EACH DIRECTION"
Dear Babelabby: All, which we do not only thank you in the center of Westside for the independent life span for forming the impossible, occur for us, but, our daily desires come also to leave applicable. Who would have thought that there are nine years, which instruct WCIL call everywhere country for the ours "please writing cone" marking signs would form? Thanks in the name of each individual their quality of the life span one improved because of the instruction and the deliveries, which we received from your readers.
The capital produced by marking sign the substantial project, which was translated into certain services and into amazing stories.
Correct here somewhat from the last year:
*Exhausted, in order to employ with constant its wife, who has the illness of Alz more heimer, the support of "program links" looked Charles up H. from WCIL. We helped it to support in order to pick out and pay a personal support, then it has now delay of the Obacht of its wife
*Erika did not require that its inability held her even self sufficing and his/her son. It terminated the training course of the computer of WCIL. and work now all day in the medical center of emperor permanent one.
*The fallow motorized as Juan G of armchair rolling downwards, even two weeks after it had become occupied helped to thus carry out $500 in the urgency of financing which he quickly knows in reference with work.
*Anita V. repeated the incapacity and owes on the dependent disablement pensions survived being. When she was threatened by the loss of this financing, WCIL helped to receive it, by the bureaucratic labyrinth too and to recover their problem.
*S. Steve fought with the chronic pain because of the repeated executions and the degenerative diseases. After it received a resemblance, which guesses/advises and trains in the independent alive capacities with WCIL, said Steve,
"I believed, as me was given behind my duration."
nLoraine B came with the WCIL Suchenraten being studied to live with their incapacity and also received the assistance in the study, how some problems are recovered, that it had with its servicers housing.
Thanks, Babelabby call, for again publish ours "please police" flag project. I am reliably that it gets many more such stories and again, WCIL's mission is, lucky ends for all them -- Mary Ann Jones, Executivdirektor, To Guarantee WCIL
Dear Mary Ann: Congratulations for the terrible work which you make to help of the people with incapacities. With the fast approach of season of holidays, I am happy to point out readers that "call please the font" flags make the marvellous stuff-stockings. They can literally be of the lifesavers in an urgency of roadside. To have in the compartment of glove brings the incalculable peace of the spirit not only to the old men, but also to the parents of the managers of teenager. To place order, write WCIL-Banners, P.O. Box 92501, Los Angeles, Calif. 90009. You will receive "call please a font" flag like precedes for a contribution $5 to WCIL, and a different flag with each additional contribution $4 (send please of the $1 additional ones per command for stamping and to handle.) Many people control two, for the windshield and for back Window.
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Dear Babelabby: My wife and I live with three friends, in order to save the cash. One our housemates are the brother of my wife. I then for not stopping it. It is determining and always requires to things its way. The other housemates is notionless from it and lets it do, what he requires. I am the only one, who seem, to have a problem with it.
Babelabby, that evening held it yesterday "a session of the family" and asked my wife and me not to fight on the flat portal.
We very frequently do not fight, but there are two things, which we fight approximately: Cash and more his/her brother-bad. I regarded, in order to say to it with its thoughts with many opportunities on screen end which, but with me maintained my closed opening, because my wife achieves the conversion, if I criticize its brother. It is protecting of it much and believes that it cannot form an evil. It thinks that I am vindictive, if I am in the contradiction with him. I to have a right, say, which closed my opening for peace or maintenances I, owe, what I of it think? --Drawn in Upward in Virginia Western
Dear Drawn in Upward: Since a long time, since you live under the same roof, you would be intelligent to maintain your closed opening.
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Dear Babelabby: Regarding your response at the woman, who was betruebt, because the widow of a Minister propelled out after its married man with the church: You said the examination, which is probably of the widow it "necessary, it still tighten with the men."
Babelabby, excused you the behavior of this woman and limited the distress of the woman to the minimum. The widow of the Minister should know better. She knows better, if she is formed in holy Scriptures, guidelines which adapted concerns is and which between the sexes is not. The widow had already a married man of her clean, and although it is unfortunate, it is late, is not only the married man of other one (in its own church, however) insufficient for pursuer someone, but unfair with the woman of the man. People like the widow penetrate other terminals and hopes on the compassion, in order to continue their play. The married man is tightened not always and it is not not the work of the woman for finding the widow a new man, so that it does not steal to him hers.
I was in the similar situations and have a solution: **time-out** I take the woman on side and say, "I then be wrong, but I obtain the feeling that you be attract with my husband, and it me return uncomfortable." They it deny always with beginning, but I them treat with the dignity and the honesty, and it me gain their respect. I do not have any more problems with them. In fact, I obtain the direction which they are relieved to be stopped of a so affectionate way. That functions -- Wife of Care of Who
Dear Who The Expensive Woman: Their experiment gives the intelligent voice to the other page of history. In a perfect world nobody would require intentionally to the husbands of another person or would tighten. Unfortunately however we do not live in a perfect world, around an accumulation.

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