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Aug. 10th, 2007 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpVia a colleague who has a sharp eye for sites that have drunk the machine-translation Kool Aid comes a link (NSFW) from, of all places, Playboy. The copy on the linked page - where there is a "Start Now!" button (from which I nicked the subject line of this post) - boggles the mind, at least if you translate to or from the language or your native tongue is Russian.
The machine-translated Russian text has not undergone the slightest bit of polishing - not that it would help, as nothing short of a complete rewrite will salvage it.
The Playboy organization must be experiencing bad times, indeed, if they can't afford to pay someone who can find their way around a keyboard to translate their advertising copy. (Not that I'm bucking for the job, but even I - with my deplorable skills in composing Russian text - would come up with much better copy!)
Cheers...
The machine-translated Russian text has not undergone the slightest bit of polishing - not that it would help, as nothing short of a complete rewrite will salvage it.
The Playboy organization must be experiencing bad times, indeed, if they can't afford to pay someone who can find their way around a keyboard to translate their advertising copy. (Not that I'm bucking for the job, but even I - with my deplorable skills in composing Russian text - would come up with much better copy!)
Cheers...
