[Dixielandjazz] Pardon me?

[Bill Gunter]

Hi John,

>Here's a message which I received this morning - but I'm damned if I can
>figure out what this person is talking about. Can anyone translate?

Well! This is a fun exercise!

>"Hello, i my name is Nicola Tancredi I find me in ITALY to Stigliano (you
>see map); sound the classic guitar.

"Hi, my name is Nicola Tancredi and I live in Stigliano, Italy (you can find 
it on a map) and I play the classic guitar."

>I have to displease, but I do not speak
>English for that I hope that the translator goes well!

"I'm sorry, but I don't speak English so I hope the translator works."

>I have a study of record and I have to please if you can record for myself
>in "SLOW REGTIME", my music that i send to you for internet.

"I have some music I can send you via the internet and I'd like to know if 
you can make a midi file of it for me in "slow ragtime."

>Then you send me the file midi in "SLOW REGTIME" and
>i send to you MP3 of the work that do in study of record with my sets to
>music played from you!!

"If you send me the midi file in "slow ragtime" I'll perform and record it 
in a set and send an MP3 file of the performance back to you."

>Ok?  You announce me, if it does to please you this experience?  :-)).
>Well, i wait your news.

"OK? Let me know if you're interested in doing this"  (smiley face)."

>CAUTION, you speak me with l' Italian. ..per do this, can run back to the
>site http: //www.freetranslation.com/, but write an elementary English!

"But you must speak to me in Italian. In order to do this you can go to a 
translation website - http://www.freetranslation.com - but write in simple 
English.

>HELLO HELLO
>HELLO. ..DALL'ITALIA."

"Hello, hello, hello from Italy."

>  Okay you linguists, get cracking!!


I don't know, John - but that's the best I can come up with.

Cheers,

Bill "Io voglio un pizza" Gunter
jazzboard@hotmail.com

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