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by inetsee 1485 days ago
I remember reading years ago about one of the more amusing machine translation failures. The software translated "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." into Russian, then translated the result from Russian back into English, and the result was "The vodka is good, but the meat is spoiled."

I tried the same test with Google Translate just now and the result produced was "The spirit wants, but the flesh is weak." Not bad.