Re: VL-TRANS: Caution:
Adam Ophir Shapira 
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 21:46:01 +0100

At 7:24 PM -0500 10/20/97, Rob Zook wrote:
>At 07:01 PM 10/20/97 +0100, you wrote:
>>You should be very careful when using technologies similar to the
>>Universal Translator Assitant in translating one language to another.
>>
>>If you over-use it, you could make an ass out of yourself ... or
>>even worse ... you could make a Jelly Donut out of yourself.
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>Rob Z.

Oh, so you haven't heard of John F. Kennedy's famous attempt
to speak German with English grammar?

My point in saying that overusing stuff like the Universal
Translator Assistant could cause you to say things that are
not only choppy in the target language ... but that could
actually mean things *very different* from what you intend.