Amiga Remix - Ratings

[Dr.Future]

Hi LMan,

could it be that the Ratings (Smileys) @ Amiga Remix still lead towards phatsides? I still get errors there...

[tas]

phatsides?

i notice this error a lot with german people (no obvious intention to the mistake).

i'm curious in thought.. why sides not sites?

i have noticed it soooo many times.!

[xo]

I'm curious too, why not zitez?

[Monty]

possible explanation:

in german "page" and "side" share the same word: "seite".
i think because the letters are almost the same and it's pronounced similarly, "site" is often mistranslated to "seite" (in the meaning of "page").
now it might happen that you have some german guy not remembering exactly what the name was...something with the meaning of "seite" but not "phatpages" "phatsides" is born.

[Vosla]

Yup. We ran into the same Problem with our Star Wars fan magazine.

In german it's called "Die Dunklen Seiten" ("The Dark Pages"). Though this also has the innuendo for "The Dark Sides" in german, this gag doesn't (obviously) works in the english conversion, much to our dismay.
The emperor wasn't pleased so the english version was scratched from the boards.

However this doesn't matter anymore as our little Star Wars community is crumbling away anyway...

[Jan Lund Thomsen]

could it be that the Ratings (Smileys) @ Amiga Remix still lead towards phatsides? I still get errors there...

3 days ago LMan mailed both Paul Vanukoff and myself the new URLs for the rating system. Obviously Paul hasn't complied yet.

[Dr.Future]

Thanks Jan!