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Old 09-October-2004, 03:49 AM
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I'll believe it when this "universal translator" correctly translates from language A to language B and back again syntactically and idiomatically correct. There are two apocryphal stories about such translations.

1: The phrase "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" was translated from English to Russian and back again resulting in "Good vodka, rotten meat".

2: The phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" was translated from English to Chinese and back again resulting in "Invisible, crazy".
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