From:	"Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject:	Re: Way [OT]: Translating
Date:	Sun, 24 May 1998 17:45:58 -0300

Spike escreveu:
>
> And verily, did Alfredo B Alves hastily scribble thusly...
> |Try
> |http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com
> |(It translates for you)
>
> Even better if you translate to a language and then translate the
> translation back to english...
> (It proves that it's a pretty crappy service, but the results can be
> amusing.)


Once the guys from a computing magazine here in Brasil tested the
service translating a poem from Vinícius de Moraes (a famous poet here)
to English and back several times... The end result was funny :) .

Bira