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On the fallibility of computer translations

Posted: Friday, February 08, 2013 - By Kate Galante
SO TO SPEAK: Computer translation programs have improved, but beware: they are anything but perfect.

Many years ago, when computer translation programs were first being developed, the Biblical phrase “The flesh is weak, but the spirit is willing” was fed into a program to be translated into Russian. What came out in Russian was “The meat is rotten, but the wine is good.”

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