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
Jul242008

CNN.com - July 24, 2008

Going in:

"US shifting Pakistan funding to new fighter jets"

Coming out:

"The United States to Pakistan's capital, with a new fighter plane"

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Well, I'm sure some people would like it if this were the case.