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by cossatot 3975 days ago
International travel now has a new source of entertainment: On-the-spot generation of humorous mistranslations.
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The oddest result I ever got from WordLens was when using it to translate a page of poetry on a plaque. The output was wonderful :)

WordLens was awesome for translating fragments of foreign languages - stuff like signs, menus and so on. But its offline translation seemed to be little more than a word->word translation, so there is a huge scope for improvement there. Very difficult when working offline!

Reddit is going to have a field day
Chinese restaurants did it first.
Just capture the screenshot and you have a meme generator as well!