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Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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not anymore...

I don't mean literally with Lorem Ipsum - you can use Google Translate to transform any piece of text into gibberish. When in doubt, translate back.

no no, I know. I'm only teasing :)

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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Because of Google's approach based strictly on statistical regularities, words can completely change translations based on context even in languages where that wouldn't normally happen, because the contexts can swing the estimates. One funny one comes with city names, where Google sometimes mistakenly "translates" a city to a different city that happens to have frequent usage in the target language, in contexts that…

My favorite one was the word "Amistad!" translated Spanish->English: Amistad! -> Friendship! You could add more exclamation points, and they'd show up on the other side: Amistad!!! -> Friendship!!! But when you reached five, you apparently hit some sort of context changeover, because: Amistad!!!!! -> Murder! Sadly, it has since been fixed.

if someone kept on yelling "Friendship!" louder and louder, it might lead to murder...

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

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I don't mean literally with Lorem Ipsum - you can use Google Translate to transform any piece of text into gibberish. When in doubt, translate back.

no no, I know. I'm only teasing :)

Still, probably best not to feed every password to Google.

Re: Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

#39

I wonder why Cisco Security is in there?

Cisco Security has been vital since ancient times, obviously there would be Latin for it.

Indeed! Cisco Security saved the ancient Republic from the Cataline rebellion, delivering famous orations. "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?"

No, wait, that was Cicero. My bad.

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