Aside from the sleep situation (was woken too early from a deep, useful sleep   
   by phone ringing -- messed up the sleep cycle), I'm experiencing tummy issues.   
   I think the chopped lamb I cooked for a late dinner may have been bad. So far   
   so good, but I think I'll be in a big rush very soon. If the lamb doesn't get   
   me, the noises in my gut will!    
      
   For fun, I tossed that paragraph into Google translate to see what they did   
   with the some of the idiomatic language. What do you think?   
      
   Aparte de la dormo situacio (estis vekita tro frue de profunda, utila dormo   
   telefone sonorado - paneas la dormon ciklo), mi spertas Tummy temoj. Mi kredas   
   ke la pikita ŝafidon mi kuiris por malfrue vespermanĝi eble estis   
   malbona. Ĝis nun tiel bona, sed mi pensas ke mi estos en granda hasto tre   
   frue. Se la ŝafido ne ricevas min, la bruoj en mia gut volo!   
      
   My favorite thing is to then take the translation and retranslate it back into   
   English:   
      
   Aside from the sleep situation (he was awakened too early from a deep,   
   beneficial sleep the phone ringing - messed up the sleep cycle), I experienced   
   Tummy issues. I think the minced lamb I cooked for a late dinner may have been   
   wrong. So far so good, but I think I will be in a great hurry soon. If the   
   lamb does not get me, the noises in my gut will!   
      
   Do you have any clue why "tummy" needs to be capitalized in Esperanto? Is   
   there an E. word for hamburger? "Minced" seems such an odd choice in the   
   original context. Do I remember correctly that E. is supposed to be a   
   balanced, unsexist language? Or is it Google that jumped to choose the pronoun   
   in without any evidence to back it up? Is there no gerund form in E.?   
      
   --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1   
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)