Re: language abuse and machine translation

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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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