Nutgraf

Every so often, as a part of my day job, I have to run something through the very fine Google Language Tools translation to find out what the heck is happening on a particular Web page. I deal with language for a living, and it is such a fluid medium fraught with nuance (not often that you get to use nuance in a sentence… or in a parenthetical), that I cannot fathom what must go into that kind of translation software. But still, the results are usually just good enough for me to get a gist of content, enough to know if I need to go for a more formal translation. And sometimes you get a little gem like this:

Did you know how many there your clone?
It is time for revenge frigging broom …

The ellipsis were a part of the translation. I do love how it trails off ominously.

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