Bite the wax tadpole

Ahh... the old trick of translating something from English to Chinese and back to English again. Does it ever get old?

I like to take headlines from newspapers and put them through Google Translate this way. It is especially amusing because headlines are practically their own dialect, and it is always a hoot poking fun at a computer program that has probably done more for the advancement of humanity than I ever will.

Wednesday
Aug062008

Baltimore Sun - August 6, 2008

Going in:

"City man robbed, shot while picking up carryout order"

Coming out:

"City man robbed, shot and rebounded carryout order"

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Well, I'm sure Coach is glad he had his arms up, but that's probably a foul.