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2016-06-10 , 20:49
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Originally Posted by MikeHG View Post
Reminds me of the (probably apocryphal) story of an English <> Russian translation program given the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" as a test. It translated it into Russian, then back into English as "Blind and mad".]
I have a similar example, also Eng -> Rus -> Eng. It must have been at least 20 years ago if not 30, so the full details fizzled out of my head but the punchline was that "great spirit" came back as "cheap vodka".
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