From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 22:03:07 MDT
At 11:48 PM 26/09/00 +0200, "scerir" <scerir@libero.it> wrote:
>If I write down the first statement of the italian constitution
>"L'Italia è una repubblica fondata sul lavoro" from the Altavista
>translator I get "Italy is one republic founded on the job".
I love it! In machina veritas! Those danged suave romantic Europeans...
[In certain forms of vernacular English, `on the job' means `during sexual
intercourse'.]
[and a more cynical person than I might render it `while shafting the
voters'.]
Damien Broderick
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