Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Machine translators are too literal

We all know many of you use machine translators for writing assignments, but machines translate literally and don't take the context into account. You usually trust them too much and don't revise the resulting translation, which often is rather hilarious for your teachers (well, when they manage to understand what you meant, that is.)

Here you have a funny example of a literal translator:


Can you think of other funny literal translations? Come on, contribute with your comments!
We will enjoy like midgets! (=nos lo pasaremos como enanos)