Re: English text to Spanish

This reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) account of the automatic 
translation software that started with the following phrase:

"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

After translating this to Russian, then back to English, the result was:

"The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten."

True?  I don't know.  But it illustrates the point, I think <smile>.

Joe

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Alan Cassidy" <acassidy@pioneermetals.com>
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:09:35 -0500

>You get into real danger, especially the way AS/400 program-generated 
documents are frequently worded, and even more with the lingo of our trade 
and even business variations. That is, the wrong little word here or 
there... 


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