Be careful when you don't speak the target language and you run something significant through a machine translation. The results can often surprise you and your

Be careful when you don't speak the target language and you run something significant through a machine translation. The results can often surprise you and your audience. I wrote a speech in English, and had Google Translate it to Spanish. This was around 2010. One of the lines was "There is electricity in the air." The translation read, "No hay electricidad en el aire." I speak Spanish well, and upon proofreading, I freaked out that it would negate the sense of the whole sentence, but it can, and it did.