To try to break the tool, I ran DJB's article on IPv6 [0] to Latin and back[1]. Impressively, most of the phrases translated, but they lost most of their semant

To try to break the tool, I ran DJB's article on IPv6 [0] to Latin and back[1]. Impressively, most of the phrases translated, but they lost most of their semantic meaning. Double-translations are still heavily influenced by the language of the second text - the text picked up lots of "servant," "slave," and "prayer" references. There were some extra problems introduced: D.J. Bernstein became J.D. Bernstein, for instance. Most of the semantics-wrecking errors were of the same type: failing to pick a correct definition from context. Here's a paragraph from the original: Problem: There are only a few billion public IPv4 addresses. Many of those addresses have already been allocated. What happens when we run out of public IPv4 addresses? And here's the double-translation: PROBLEM there are few billion IPv4 addresses of the State. And many of them attributed to prayer now. What happens when we run, from the public IPv4 addresses? The only significant error in the first sentence is "public" => "of the State." The second sentence is also mostly intact, but has one of the spurious Latin-introduced phrases, "prayer." The error in the third sentence is very minor, but enough to make the entire translation meaningless. Overall, I'm impressed that it attempts to translate so many technical phrases. I'm not impressed by their web interface - the "contribute a better translation" tooltip makes it impossible to copy individual lines or paragraphs in Chrome. [0] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html [1] http://pastebin.com/B73w7nPT http://pastebin.com/B73w7nPT