Computer Translation

[irenicspace]

Computer translation can only go so far:

L'adresse d'expedition ne peut pas recevoir de messages: merci de ne pas repondre a ce message.

The address of forwarding cannot receive messages: thank you not to answer this message has.

Comments

[isomeme]

Those are always good for a giggle. What I find remarkable, though, is how successful the combination of such computer translations and the human mind can be; I can usually Babelfish a site or text fragment and at least get the gist of the content.

[irenicspace]

Yeah, I agree. However people think they can run a letter through a translation program and then send it out! Later they find out from the recipient that letter sent is complete nonsense.