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Thread poster: Daniel Grau
Daniel Grau
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Argentina
Member (2008)
English to Spanish
Jun 22, 2012

Read the following thread in the Microsoft forum. The funny part is the original poster's reply.

• http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac/forum/macoffice2011-macword/how-can-i-best-compare-a-document-with-ms-word/b0e85f7b-f1f5-41b5-ad83-65f94203ac66
 
Piotr Bienkowski
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Poland
Local time: 11:30
English to Polish
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Translate Server Error Restaurant Jun 23, 2012

http://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/chinese-restaurant-c.html
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Spain
Local time: 11:30
Member (2005)
English to Spanish
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Hilarious! Jun 23, 2012

Well, I think there will be a new category of communication in the future: broken communications because of lack of MT service at a certain point in time. Oh wow. This is going to create such an amount of business for us translators when frustated user of MT get fed up and decide that it is time to set things right once for all!!
 
LilianNekipelov
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United States
Local time: 05:30
Russian to English
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Serious? Jun 23, 2012

I don't think anybody in sound mind was ever taking machine translation seriously. I use it myself sometimes for very rare languages, mostly for cooking recipes that look great. I wasn't able to cook anything yet, following those translated recipes. I hope the food will not explode.
 
Heikki A (X)
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Finland
Local time: 12:30
English to Finnish
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funny Jun 23, 2012

Piotr Bienkowski wrote:

http://boingboing.net/2008/07/15/chinese-restaurant-c.html


Haha! I was literally laughing out loud, but wouldn't dare write LOL here
 


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