Typewriter site snags Chinese porn — maybe

Each day blogging brings new surprises.

I have another site, Back Space Typewriters, which is devoted to these grand old "word processor/printers." I don't post on Back Space much, but the site does draw comments for, and from, an esoteric group.

Because the occasional submitted remarks aren't fit for the eyes of typewriter collectors — true innocents — I screen messages from twisted correspondents — or porn-spewing robots.

Earlier this week, I had to decide what to do with this:

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Could this really be about the vintage Smith Premier I bought last summer in, of all places, Coos Bay? The typewriter was one of the last made without a shift key. Instead it has two keyboards. Perhaps the writer liked having two keyboards, one for lower case and one for upper.

Then again, the keyboard might invite comparison to massive Chinese-language keyboards with hundreds of keys.

Or he (or she) may have wondered about Coos Bay itself and how I found myself there. (You don't want to know.)

I have to confess, my Mandarin is a little rusty, so, ever curious, I pasted the characters into one of those translation sites, and here, verbatim, is what I got:

Makes friends chats looks for e jue, the panda pastes the chart area, the ut chatroom, Du Leisi the adult, the adult novel, the younger sister, the adult article, the adult picture, the panda pastes the chart, the jp adult, makes friends the love minor stop, the pornographic game, the sentiment color regards the news, the sentiment color regards the news, aio makes friends love hall, the adult regards the news, Comrade tt1069 makes friends the net, the adult movie, the adult pastes the chart, the male comrade chatroom, 0951 adult channel downloading, makes friends 104 intimate

Could this be what passes for erotica in China? Take a closer look at the original. "同志交友網," caught my eye right away.

Whew!

Conclusion: who needs porn filters with language barriers like these?