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		Vivtek on June 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private F... And here's the flip side of Google Translate. German doesn't react well to n-gram statistics; too many long-distance dependencies. Also translating the city of "Essen" as "Food" is hilarious.

fhars on June 11, 2013 | [–]

I prefer the transpation of "Würzburg" as "peppering castle" that babelfish did when the web was still young...

hedonist on June 11, 2013 | | [–]

Actually it's naming a city "Essen" in the first place that I find hilarious. Just like the name for that city next to it, "Theremouth" (Dortmund).

trendspotter on June 11, 2013 | [–]

true :)

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