I found it quite impressive how far automatic translation has come, unlike the early babaelfish days you could in fact understand most of the text without tryin

I found it quite impressive how far automatic translation has come, unlike the early babaelfish days you could in fact understand most of the text without trying to do a overly literal retranslation into the source language (I still fondly think back to the day when babalfish translated the german city name "Würzburg" as "peppering castle").