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Old 06-01-2004, 02:33 PM  
OzMan
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Originally posted by Phoenix66
It's obviously useless if he wants a quality translation. You can use software to translate something to your native language from some else language, but you cannot be ever sure what you get when you translate from your native language to the language you do not know. In most cases you get text that can be a subject to make a laugh of, and sometimes it is totally fucked up at all...
Exactly.

as an example with babelfish

"Click here for more galleries"

to Mandarin and back to English reads,

"Clicks on here for more decorated corridors"

and some of the Japanese ones are funny as hell
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