>>Yes I saw some funny stories about those translations. Thanks for the info. A
>happy new year to you and your family Hilmar!
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>One that is interesting - apparently true - is about a German city that published a touristic brochure. To save the cost of a professional translator, they used a free automatic translation service. The translation was virtually useless, and they had to redo it, this time, with a human translator...

In my city they had to replace the human translator with a human translator :)