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.

Thursday
Jul312008

LA Times - July 31, 2008

Going in:

"Karl Rove in contempt: Is it justice or a witch hunt?"

Coming out:

"Rove in contempt: This is just a witch or Hunter?"

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I'm going to guess "witch," since he certainly doesn't look like the man that holds the NFL record for safeties in a single game.