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<div>Manchester University were one of the first to install a computer. Back in those days they probably needed half the power of the Electric grid of the area to run them. They were all glass and large cabinets. By today's standard probably the equivalent of 286 computer not even a Pentium. </div>
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<div>In their wisdom they decided to see what this computer could do. So they decided to translate the sentence from Shakespeare 'The spirit is strong but the flesh is weak' into Russian and back again to English. They got the following: The Vodka is great but the meat has gone off!</div>
<div>Moshe <br>
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From: Orr Dunkelman <orr.dunkelman@gmail.com><br>
To: Shachar Shemesh <shachar@shemesh.biz><br>
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Sent: Thu, Sep 17, 2009 5:49 pm<br>
Subject: Re: I have a rabbit in my ears ;-)<br>
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<PRE style="font-size: 9pt;"><TT>2009/9/17 Shachar Shemesh <<A __removedLink__749903824__href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz">shachar@shemesh.biz</A>>:
> sara fink wrote:
>
> I tried to translate more than once french to english. It is done badly as
> well. There is no way around with those machine translations. it translates
> word by word.
>
> Some of them do, at least.
my hovercraft is full of eels
=0
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BTW, dutch<->french translation are usually ok (not too long sentences).
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