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[Rox55]

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[macgirl]

Very dumb indeed, because the lack of an accent.

BTW Babelfish does not have this problem though.

[niteice]

Eh. Kinda pointless. It's more fun translating All Your base into Japanese and back.

[Metrogirl]

I work a lot with European colleagues and although I can speak/read several languages I usually run their documents through Systran because it's easier to read at speed and I can refer to the original text for the bits that get screwed up.   I run my replies through Systran for a sanity check; it's a good program and the basis for BabelFish, I believe.    Where Systran really creates howlers is in its attempted translation of people's names.   "Dear Mr Cake-Thumper", "Mr Basher" or "Madam Drinking-Jug" for example.   Oh, dear.

[cyrana]

Sorta OT.  But I lived in Japan for a while (college, after college, work, etc).  It is amazing the amount of stuff that is just translated into English and makes like no sense. I always wished they would have hired college kids like me at the time to translate it so it sounded ok.