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Subject: that is not Portuguese

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Ian (Australia)

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Date Posted: 21:08:53 11/17/04 Wed
In reply to: John 's message, "Portuguese" on 23:39:57 11/16/04 Tue

That horrifying mixture of bad portuguese and words untranslated from the English looks like it was done by a machine. Please note: machines cannot translate. They produce nonsense.

I have uploaded a page in actual Portuguese, as used by human beings.

(To show what I mean, I used the site to "translate" the paragraph above into Portuguese and then "translate" the result back into English. The result was:

"That the mixture horrifying of the bad Portuguese and words untranslated of the English looks as it est�ve made by a machine. Please note: the machines cannot translate. They produce the nonsense.")

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