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The Pirate Party (Sweden) May Take Place in the European Parliment (translate.google.se)
19 points by nixy on April 30, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


Here's an article in English at last: http://www.thelocal.se/19162/20090430/


This is hilarious to read. It's like discovering you've BitTorrented the new Wolverine film with Spanish sub-titles and a Japanese dubbing. You can work out what's happening, but focussing on any specific sentence makes no sense.

Oh, also an interesting issue to watch.


I found it quite impressive how far automatic translation has come, unlike the early babaelfish days you could in fact understand most of the text without trying to do a overly literal retranslation into the source language (I still fondly think back to the day when babalfish translated the german city name "Würzburg" as "peppering castle").


They should dress as pirates when they go to parliament...the whole getup, an eyepatch, a fake parrot, a fake sword, etc




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