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Re: Quick question for anybody fluent in French

michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Do that...translate it to French...and then translate that back to English. I don't know if it means the same 
thing.
There's an old story about machine translation: the test message, "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" (from Matthew 26:41, if anybody cares) was translated from English into Russian, then back into English. It supposedly came back, "The vodka is strong, but the meat is rotten." 

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