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   Hi Ed,   
      
   Wed 22 Jan 2025 at 23:44, you wrote to All:   
      
    EV> I have been reading some messages in this forum and began to think   
    EV> about The Night Show years ago when Jack Parr was the host   
    EV> Some nights he would have 4 or 5 people who could use multiple   
    EV> languages. Jack would (whisper?) tell a short story ( or joke) to one   
    EV> of the guest. Each guest would say the story to another guest but in   
    EV> another language. When the story was told to the last member of the   
    EV> group they would tell Jack and the audience in English what they heard   
    EV> and most times the story was very different than it was first told   
      
   Humans are "unreliable narrators", of sorts.   
   You would expect the same "faulty phone line" effect if you decided to feed it   
   into an online translator, like Google, some 15-20 years ago. However, today's   
   Google translation algorithms are so advanced and precise it's scary. :-)   
      
   ======   
   - Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?   
   - By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.   
   - Methinks it is like a weasel.   
   - It is backed like a weasel.   
   - Or like a whale?   
   - Very like a whale.   
      
   GT translation chain: English - Russian - Italian - German - Turkish - Polish   
   - English, and here's the result:   
      
   - Do you see that the cloud is almost a camel?   
   - For fair and really like a camel.   
   - Metts is like love.   
   - He is supported as love.   
   - Is it like a whale?   
   - Like a whale.   
   ======   
      
   I can see how "weasel" turned into "love" at some point because of the   
   ambiguous Russian translation of the word, but all in all, really good job!   
      
      
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