Sunday, November 7, 2010

The joys of google translate

For reasons that are not worth going into, we needed to know how to say 'flared nostrils' in Spanish. We used Google translate, and the result looked much longer than you would think necessary;

ventanas ensanchado de la nariz

So we translated it back into English, and got

Spread the nose windows.

Hmmm.

OK Yahoo Babel Fish, what do you think it might be in Spanish?

ventanas de la nariz seƱaladas por medio de luces

Which translates as...?

indicated nostrils by means of lights 

Of course.

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