Does anyone speak Russian?
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I've copied the text of your post into Google translator and translated it into few Slavic languages I understand. The translation came out surprisingly understandable, but with some awful grammatical errors. It was like Indians speak English in the Westerns.
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Google translate will give you the gist, if not the correct grammatical format.
This question reminds me of an old story about the CIA. They tried to make a translating computer for Russian, to test it out they would take a sentence in English, translate it to Russian, then back to English.
It had a lot of trouble with figures of speech so, one day a programmer decided to try the phrase, "Out of sight, out of mind."
The computer responded. "Invisible idiot."
This question reminds me of an old story about the CIA. They tried to make a translating computer for Russian, to test it out they would take a sentence in English, translate it to Russian, then back to English.
It had a lot of trouble with figures of speech so, one day a programmer decided to try the phrase, "Out of sight, out of mind."
The computer responded. "Invisible idiot."
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I've found when translated back to English there's either words missing, or they're re-ordered in a way that make sense still but doesn't sound quite right. So after two hours of changing: comma placements, words, and the order of words, I finally got it to translate back to English perfectly.
So, google translator does work with some playing around.
So, google translator does work with some playing around.