Do you Gooble Translate?

Hi y'all! Quick note.

I was over at Buck's place this morning, and was reading a post about a note he got in Japanese from an old friend. The translation that Babelfish gave him was not a whole lot of help.

In the comments, someone used "Google Translate," and it was pretty dang close.

Now, I may be the last surviving internet user that did not know that The Gooble has such a service. So, I took the note that Buck had posted, and used several online translation services. Many were not even as good as Babelfish had come up with.

I got curiouser (Is that a word? Hey, there's no red line underneath it...so it must be). In the sidebar of this puny blog you will see an example of Chinese writing (I think it's called hanyu pin-somethinoranother...but don't quote me). This came to me the day after my beloved LSU Tigers were defeated by the worthless, miserable, PiSU Lions. Sigh.

Having only ever used Babelfish, I busted it out, and this is what you get:

"Because LSU is fearful at the rugby, I smile! And, you suck!"

Now, LSU can be pretty "fearful" sometimes...but I was sure that something had been lost in the translation.

So, I went to Gooble Translate this morning, and got this:

"Because LSU is terrible at football, I laugh! And, you suck!"

I have an idea that that's what the chink meant. Don't ya' just hate it when a chink is right?

Regardless, I thought I'd pass along the tip about Gooble Translate, just in case there is anyone as ignorant as me that didn't know about it.

Later, Andy