This afternoon I went to use an Internet shop (any visitor to Frankfurt will have no difficulty finding one). I needed to download a file for my translation work, and as I do not have the appropriate tools at home, it was the obvious solution.
To kill the remaining 10 minutes of my allocated time, I spent some time editing the articles that I have written on this blog. While I was checking the one that I wrote this morning up flashed a message whether I wanted it translated into German.
Sounded like fun ....
Beware instant translation tools. It was hilariously funny, even if it did my artistic creation no favours. Nor did it show the German language in anything resembling its true form. The best bit though was where it translated the word for "smart" as in looking smart.
Yes, you got it in one! "Intelligent"! Same word as in English excepting the "g" being hard.
"Intelligent clothes" - what an interesting concept!
The newish jacket I was wearing (a present at Christmas, I could never have afforded to buy it) is smart, so on the S-Bahn home I had an interesting conversation with it. In fact it is a lot smarter than George W. Bush ever was (that doesn't take much doing, thinking about it), so if it had been American, it could well have been in the running to become President of the United States if it had been around a few years ago ....
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