Round trip translations

Subject: Round trip translations
From: Anita Legsdin <anita -dot- legsdin -at- watchmark -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 13:52:56 -0700


And then there's the classic example of a test from English to Russian and
back to English, to verify whether a translation program was working
correctly:

Original sentence: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
How it came back: "The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten."

Anita Legsdin
Sr. Technical Writer
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