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I think most people, if they are going to use an online translator, is they need to translate whatever the result back into the language it was originally put in...but that's just my take...
1) Go to Babelfish or Google Translate
2) Type a paragraph in your native tongue
3) Translate into Japanese
4) Translate back into English
The only reason i use online translators now is if there is just a single kanji or a four-character idiom i don't know.
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but ye, great article Erin; its true online translators are really not good.
if you try to translate the same thing on different online translators, the outcome is completely different on each site. Really unreliable.
~use a dictionary, or a japanese speaking person lol
Reminds me of the good old days in the mid eighties, when I did Aikidō.
There is a technique where one walks on his knees, called "Shikkō".
One day, there was this Japanese sensei who visited the dōjō, and as soon as our teacher said the name of that very technique, the Japanese laughed out loudly.
Apparently we pronounced it wrong, turning it into "peeing". =)
they mean well.
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I'll never forget... halfway through the school year almost my entire French class had used an online translator for their left-to-the-last-minute homework (or more correctly, a few people had and the rest of them copied those people) and it was very apparent to our poor teacher by the time we had marked about half of the assignment. He asked about 5 different people for one sentence and it was all crap. He ended up yelling at us, storming out, and slamming the door behind him. We all sat their in silence for a few minutes and he came back with his tea, sat down, and looked at us. The rest of the period went that way. Never happened again, I gotta hand it to that guy, he knows how to scare high school kids. xD
Haha.
At any rate, I've seen that picture before. Pretty funny :D
(Just sayin'.)
Hilarious either way. Fukudome likely has a good laugh every time he looks into the stands.