It takes a native-speaker ...

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Thu Aug 7 17:51:47 UTC 2008


On Aug 7, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:

> From Slashdot:
>
> "Preparing for English-speaking visitors, a
> restaurant in China recently ran its name through an online
> translator,
> took the result, then purchased and mounted a large sign displaying
> the English version of its name: '_Translate Server Error_.' "
>
>
> This one sounds almost too good to be true!

see Language Log discussion (with photo):
>
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=301

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