Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:15 PM 9/21/99 -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >Altavista's babelfish translator says: "Images hastily". Ah, reminds me of a story I once heard about translation by computer. Someone put "Out of sight, out of mind," into a computer that translated from English to Chinese. When they ran it back through the computer from Chinese to English, it came out: "Invisible idiot." :-) Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us." - Calvin and Hobbes