OT: InterTran (was Re: Automated page translation with Google)

[Deewiant]

Jari-Matti Mäkelä wrote:
> Google Translate does not support finnish yet, but I found
> www.tranexp.com. Well, it does look a bit hilarious :D
> 

InterTran's Finnish translation is a joke. I don't know what it's logic is in
translating the English "I" to "I-KIRJAIN" (literally "THE LETTER I") instead of
"minä". That's one of the most basic words in either language, and can't be that
hard to get right.

Run its Finnish->English on the Kalevala for a laugh:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kvfin/
Or the English->Finnish, if you're feeling lucky:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/

I love the way "tuo sotka, sorea lintu" (approximately "that duck, graceful
bird"; the English translation has "a beauteous duck") becomes "yonder bitch,
pretty bird".