Spanish translation is aweful, but I had a great time reading though

Machine translation is so much fun.

I thought it would be able to do simple things, like translate American expletives into Finnish (for, you know, a certaiN promiNeNt compaNy that I woN’t Name). And then jkk (not the JK here) tells me the machine really screwed them up!

I’d like to see a little state flag of Texas too so we could instantly get James’ inimitable take on a news story. I’m guessing an entire paragraph would be boiled down to a terse one-liner.

Ignar, isn’t that exactly what I said? ;)

I tried Korean translation. To get the idea of the quality of translation, look at the following which I got by re-translating to English using Google. :)

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