>>>>>Essentially I said, "Referring me to a Dutch dictionary, but the site is in Dutch, is like a telephone for the deaf"
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>>>>And - like any automatic translation - Babelfish didn't know whether "dutch" referred to a person, or to the language.
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>>>As long as those stupid things cannot translate in context I'll give them a wide birth
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>>berth?
>eh yes <s>
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>A+
>Jean-Marie
One interesting case appeared in the news, perhaps 2 years ago: A German city wanted to publish a bilingual (German and English) touristic pamphlet. Wanting to save a professional translator, somebody came up with the bright idea of using one of the free online services to do the translation.
Only after printing 7000 copies did they realize that the free service hand "rendered the translation virtually useless", so they had to start again.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
