<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I took Spanish in high school and college. There was several phrases/words that we use daily, that didn't directly translate to Spanish, so you find something almost the same. Now translate the 'almost the same' word into another language and you get something that may be 30% different than what you started out as.</div></div>
A HAH! That's it!

For those curious, try out babelfish.altavista.com
translate a few phrases into one language, and translate the result back into English and see what you get.


"Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose" translates into "Rudolph das rote gerochene Ren hatte eine sehr glänzende Nase" in German, and translates back into English as "Rudolph the red smelled Ren had a very much shining nose"
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