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# Babelfish do portugese? wow...
I thought it would be too obscure a language for them...
(, Thu 24 Jan 2002, 6:34, archived)
# It even does
Japanese, Korean and Russian now...
(, Thu 24 Jan 2002, 6:40, archived)
# I thought "Japanese, I'd like to see that"
So I tried "hello" and got a result. Then I thought how do I know that says "hello" in Japanese. So I reversed the process and put the result in and translated from Japanese to English. The answer was "today". Hmmm...
(, Thu 24 Jan 2002, 6:46, archived)
# Thats the problem with
Japanese, its very ambiguous and context is everything.

Hello and today could very well be the same word :)
(, Thu 24 Jan 2002, 6:50, archived)
# That almost certainly explains
all manner of things

OR (after translation and back)

That the majority explains methodological everything of thing certainly.
(, Thu 24 Jan 2002, 7:04, archived)