Re: Vehicle cammo website/Babel Fish

On Mon, 08 Oct 2001 20:13:23 +0000, "Richard Kirke"
<richardkirke@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Thanks, you're a star, I now have a working (if slightly amusing)
English 
>website to look at... about the pro one, Nice try!

Sorry I didn't reply, but I just saw your URL request! *S*

Yeah, it's quite funny to read. But some of it is obviously a problem in
retranslation. The US's Marine Corps was translated, from the German, as
"navy
Corps". You can understand why. The machine translations, while amusing,
make
foreign language web sites useful.

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
Goodall's Grotto:  http://www.vex.net/~agoodall

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 you get white! Try that with Play-Doh and you get
 brown! How come?" - Alan Moore & Kevin Nolan,