[9fans] OT - Machine translation

["Andrew Simmons" <andrew@mbmnz.co.nz>]

I think Boyd is being a bit harsh on machine translations. I don't know what
Google uses, but I feel that their translations into English achieve a
certain sublime poetry. As an example, the following is Google's translation
from Italian of the opening paragraph of an obituary of the English
philosopher G.E.M Anscombe. I don't see how even Mark V. Shaney could have
bettered this:

In our country it is known above all for being one of executory the
testamentary ones of Wittgenstein , of which also it has cured some of the
works. But it is not only to that G.E.M. Anscombe, than has extinguished to
ottantuno years slid five January, must its reputation in international the
philosophical community. Elisabeth Anscombe has been a philosopher
originates them, author of contributions that have influenced the
literature in various fields and that they still today continue to make to
discuss.