i.justrealized

Try translating Barack Obama from English to German in Windows Live Translator and you get this:

Windows Live Translator is powered by Microsoft Translate.

It appears that Microsoft don’t do a basic dictionary translate and perform a more contextual-based translation and matches information available online to aid the translation. It’s an interesting approach; it fails interestingly too.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 am and has been tagged barack obama, error, funny, microsoft, rudy giuliani, translation, windows live. Comments RSS feed.