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To: sandintoes who wrote (758788)2/7/2007 2:57:47 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Sometimes the machine translations can be pretty funny --- or else get you into trouble.

They mostly 'don't get' slang, or idioms.

OK for a fast conversion of a business document, or something with a lot of numbers and not much exposition to it... but expect a fairly high percentage of inaccuracies.

(For some real fun: try translating something simple... say a nursery rhyme or something you know real well, from *one* language to *another*, then *another*, then *another*. Now look at what you've got. :-)