Thursday, August 13, 2009

Murphy's Law in Machine Translation

Using machine translation, translate Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will" to Japanese, and then back again to English. Repeat until the translation reaches equilibrium (i.e., doesn't transform to something else). The Japanese-English phrases equalize to:

仕事では?
At work?

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