Curiosa: Invisible idiot

[nebroadwe]

For my sins, I am currently cataloging translations of Milton's poetry into Hungarian. I am not conversant with Hungarian, so I've been making judicious use of Google's translation engine. Very judicious use. After the first time you enter:

Az Elveszett Paradicsom

and receive in answer:

The Lost Tomatoes

instead of Paradise Lost, you learn to be cautious.

Comments

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

That kind of like The Lost Boys meets The Killer Tomatoes?

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha! Online translations KILLS me. They suck. >_

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

"Attaaaack of the killer tomatoes ... "

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I do find them useful in my work, though, since mainly what I'm interested in is how to say "edition" and "publisher" and "translated by" in various languages, and the algorithms are usually up to that.

[mulzrule.livejournal.com]

At least they're useful for someone/something.