From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:49:19 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
      
   > This is most famously exemplified by the (possibly apocryphal) example   
   > from early work in machine translation in the 1980s.  The project had   
   > been somewhat successful in translating academic journal articles, and   
   > they wanted to expand the field of use, so they tried some snippets of   
   > bible texts, such as   
   >           "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."   
   > When translated into Russian and back, it turned into   
   >           "The Vodka is fine, but the meat is rotten."   
      
   https://aclanthology.org/www.mt-archive.info/90/MTNI-1995-Hutchins.pdf   
      
   That goes back well before the '80s. My first exposure to programming was   
   FORTRAN IV in '66. Machine translation, a killer chess programs, machine   
   vision and many other things were going to happen real soon.   
      
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