But both style and linguistic acrobatics get erased by translation and go stale with the passage of time.

NEWYORKER: Philipp Meyer

So, Autodesk opted for a customised Systran system which translates search results into French, Spanish, German or Italian. (Support for Japanese is in the works.) By analysing the documents in Autodesk's database, and exploiting the fact that they are written in a consistent style, it was possible to tune the translation system to produce far more accurate results.

ECONOMIST: Machine translation

In true Seoul tech style, many are equipped with a free digital translation service, useful as many drivers don't speak much English.

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Chicago Deep Dish Pizza: New York or Neapolitan style pizza does not ship well, but deep dish travels magnificently, losing very little in translation, and since the best deep dish pizza, unlike the best thin crust pizza, does not require a special ultra-hot coal or wood burning oven, it lends itself to heating at home.

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