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   > Hi Ed,   
      
   > Wed 22 Jan 2025 at 23:44, you wrote to All:   
      
   > 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!   
      
   > ... Error #030: SysOp is out of beer   
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   Re: people being narrators    
      
   When I was working at a 600' Lock on the Ohio River deckhands on the tows would   
   sometimes tell me a joke, and if I thought it was real good I would tell it to   
   other deckhands as other tows came through the Lock.   
      
   After telling it 3 or 4 times I would finally tell the joke as well as I heard   
   it told to me.   
   Ed   
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