Re: language abuse and machine translation

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 19:50:47 MST

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    >Sample moronspeak:
    >
    >"All chickens are for us or against us. Some chickens cross the road.
    >There are good doer chickens and bad doer chickens. Therefore the chicken
    >crossed the road."
    >
    >try translating that into French (and back to
    >English again) and you will understand why Powell is having problems at the
    >UN these days.

    Tous les poulets sont pour nous ou contre nous. Quelques poulets
    traversent la route. Il y a de bons poulets de doer et mauvais poulets de
    doer. Par conséquent le poulet a traversé la route.

    All the chickens are for us or against us. Some chickens cross the road.
    There are good chickens of doer and bad chickens of doer. Consequently the
    chicken crossed the road.

    Thus spake Google. Powell is safe with French chickens.

    Damien Broderick



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