Re: OFF: Re: I don't give a rat's ass.

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> Funny that it translates "tapette" as "queer" :) . It's correct but it's
> not the original meaning of the word :) .
Systran (the underlying code used by babelfish.altavista.com) is very
stupid about context, and basically just looks up most words and slaps
in a single definition.  In a German->English job I did, it translated
"zu Buche" (by the book) as "to the beech", making utter hash of the
sentence.

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