What’s the German word for that?

January 17th, 2006 | By: Harvey Morrell | No Comments »

SoccerBob sent me a cute story about the genuinely funny results of doing word-for-word translations of proper names. You get the same sort of thing when you run a web page through one of the online translation ’services,’ like that of Google or Altavista. For example, check out this story, from Kicker, as translated by Google.



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