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--- Anita Legsdin <anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com> wrote:
>
> My own opinionated reply: I tried a few sentences,
> and discovered that the first translation
> (inevitably, English to French, which I happen to
> know quite well) was correct. The next step, from
> French to English, was extremely bad. It got worse
> from there.
>
Does anything ever change? Try reading Mark Twain's
account of what happened when he had the "Jumping
Frog" story translated into French and then back into
English, and the mangled mess that was the result. Now
we're using computers to make the same mistakes and
problems that we used to make with nothing but quill
pens. :-)
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