[ExI] New Bioscience Company Raises $15 Million to Revive Woolly Mammoth

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2021-9-17 07:10, BillK via extropy-chat wrote:
> This can produce odd-sounding results, especially if translating to a
> foreign language using a foreign dictionary with vocabulary that you
> are less familiar with, causing a native speaker to burst out
> laughing.

I've seen some odd ones in spam comments on my blog; some spambots use 
synonyms to try to avoid matching known patterns, and they're not fussy 
about which synonyms.

Mom relayed this anecdote:
Some Americans in Germany wanted to bake an apple pie.
Their cookbook recommended using tart apples.
So they looked up 'tart' in their English-German dictionary.
The grocer was bewildered.

Another kind of pitfall:
Thirty years ago I was a book-herald in the SCA.
Someone wanted to register a household with 'Amer' in its name, 
explaining that that is Russian for 'Honor'.  Some heralds knew enough 
Russian to think that ain't right.  We found a dictionary that said
	HONOR: amer[ikanski] = HONOUR

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