[PLUG-TALK] Interesting google mistranslation

[Keith Lofstrom]

Dirvish was written up in the July issue of the German computer
magazine c't .    I spent 0.60euro = $0.78 to download the pdf,
transmogrified it into text, and ran it through google translation.
The result is vaguely readable, but occasionally there are 
interesting gems like this phrase:

     "beliebige Extrawürste für einzelne Vaults braten"

which is translated by google into:

     "roast arbitrary extra sausages for individual Vaults"

The next time we are at Jax for advanced topics, someone should
order the "roast arbitrary extra sausages".  Not this vegetarian!

BTW, "Extrawürste" seems to be slang for "something special".
Makes a weird kind of sense given the German stereotype.  I
would think a well developed translation program would be
trained with slang as well as dictionary meaning.

Keith

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