Watch out though - computer translations are not terribly reliable, but that does make them fun to experiment with.

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This method involves not parsing sentences the way you learned to do in grade school but rather comparing lots of phrases with their existing translations (which Google did by downloading stacks of translated documents, like those from the United Nations).

FORBES: Magazine Article

Later, while reading my translated pages to Gadbois, I had a ludicrous thought: that he gave me more work only because I continued to have lunch and now dinner with him, as though that, and not the translations, were the true nature of my services.

NEWYORKER: Sweetheart Sorrow