RE:

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

> > Of course I *do* wonder what the
> > messages are about ;-).
> 
> Do what I (and I presume others) do-- go to
> http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and feed the text into the Portuguese to
> English translator.  It's usually amusing, in part as I'm sure everyone
> knows "lua" means "moon."  Want even more fun?  Take a body of text in
> English, translate to another language, and then translate back to
> English.  It's a vivid example of the cliché "lost in the translation."

I remember an old science-fiction novel (or short story) speculating on such
translator and their side-effects, with users from the whole world sending
e-mail in a chain fashion, their e-mails being automatically translated, and
coming back to the original sender completely garbled.
AFAIK, at the time I read it, automatic translators were really
science-fiction...
Now, that's just a high tech variant of the old game of whispering a message
in the ear of the child next to you, which in turn whisper what he/she
understood to the next child, and so on... LOL each time!

Regards.

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