Information technology is getting ridiculous. More likely, it always has been. Granted, what I’m actually posting is not as bad as the little text encoding hick-up in the title might suggest. But I’ve learned something interesting about G**gle Translate today… It’s not about the translation functionality itself, but about the UI. Namely the language selection …
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Allvais wis ze Görmaans: Edward Snowden Edition [en]
So the NDR (a branch of Germany’s public broadcasting service ARD) got to interview Edward Snowden — exclusive stuff apparently. And whom do they send to talk to him? Some nitwit called Hubert Seipel, whose English sounds like a combination of the Simpsons’ Rainier Wolfcastle and Bond-villain Maximilian Largo. I don’t know much about that …
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