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Why is it so hard to wreck a nice beach?

Written by , The Technocrat
Published: Friday, November 14th, 2008
I discovered last week that I can read my columns in German, courtesy of German Google and its automated translator. I don’t speak a word of German — though I have taken a fancy to the translation of my byline ...(back to the article)

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  • 8:23 a.m. on Nov. 14th, 2008
    Posted by
    #1 finnish fan

    naida minua, teknokraatti

  • 9:33 a.m. on Nov. 14th, 2008
    Posted by
    tell me this series ain't ending any time soon

    I really do leap out of bed each Friday morning anxious to read this. like, leap. why else would i be awake at this hour?

  • 9:53 a.m. on Nov. 14th, 2008
    Posted by
    टेक्नोक्रैट

    figures the prince tech column would be funnier than their humor columns. great article!

  • 11:28 a.m. on Nov. 14th, 2008
    Posted by
    haha

    wreck a nice beach...I finally get it, good heeadline

  • 10:16 a.m. on Nov. 15th, 2008
    Posted by
    from the fan club

    olet anteeksi

  • 1:24 p.m. on Nov. 15th, 2008
    Posted by
    Britta

    I thought this was going to be about the beach.

  • 9:45 a.m. on Nov. 17th, 2008
    Posted by
    wunderbar

    Спасибо, технократ

  • 7:56 p.m. on Nov. 17th, 2008
    Posted by
    Michael

    Your readers might be interested to know that I wrote a paper with 2 Princeton undergraduates a few years ago that involved using Wordnet (and several other resources) to try to solve a problem well known to college students: synonym and analogy questions from standardized tests.
    See: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?do... .

  • 1:34 a.m. on Sept. 30th, 2009
    Posted by
    Chris

    If you gave your work to a norwegian - english translator with no knowledge of Japanese, and their work to a norwegian - japanese translator with no knowledge of english, and then their work to a japanese - english translator with no knowledge of norwegian, I doubt you would have much more success.

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