The Internet is Wacky

So, on my blog yesterday I wrote about how a strange series of events on the Internet led me to track down a watercolor artist whose work I happened to find and fall in love with during a random Google search. When I later befriended the man on Facebook,  the story started to take a few too many strange turns, so I titled yesterday’s blog entry “Maybe I Just Like the Internet.”

To briefly recap: I had tracked down watercolor artist Behrooz Bahadori’s website, immediately shot an email to him through his website, and then tracked him down and befriended him on Facebook. I was excited when “Behr” (as Behrooz refers to himself) friended me on Facebook, and I looked forward to hearing back from him in the weeks ahead regarding how I could go about possibly purchasing his work.

The story goes wonky when Behr responded to my question with the following statement in what I believed to be Arabic:

اسلامی زاینده رود و تالاب گاوخونی را نابود کرد 

I jokingly asked my fellow readers if anyone knew Arabic, or even had a clue what Behr had sent back to me.

And someone did.  Well, sort of. My brilliant cousin Stacy sent me the coolest website link in the world – http://translate.google.com.

Simply type or cut and paste the phrase in question into a box on the left-hand side of the screen, hit the ‘translate’ button, and the translated word or phrase appears in the right-hand side screen box.

Needless to say, the second I finished reading her email I went directly to ‘translate Google.’ I crossed my fingers after I pasted the phrase in the left-hand box, and hoped that I was one step closer to obtaining my own Behrooz Bahadori watercolor reproduction.

The Google program best determined the phrase was in Turkish, and the message translated as follows: “Zayandeh, the creator of the wetlands, destroyed Gavkhvny.”

Translation to Dralle: I’m not getting my damn print.