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Old May 22, 2009, 04:44 PM
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Google joke! The English prverb "out of sight, out of mind was translated into Spanish. When the translation was turned back into English as a check it came back as "invisible, insane"
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Old May 22, 2009, 10:46 PM
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Machine translating has gotten better and better, but it still doesn't compare to a human translator.
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Old May 23, 2009, 06:04 AM
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That is really very funny!! I never thought about running something through Google's translator forward and backward......... hmmm......
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¿Y cuál es la traducción correcta?
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El diccionario de Tomísimo dice: "a espaldas vueltas, memorias muertas"

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Another is "ojos que no ven, corazón que no siente".
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El diccionario de Tomísimo dice: "a espaldas vueltas, memorias muertas"
Buena. Nunca habí escuchado esa.

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Esa es la que yo conocía.

Pregunte para el beneficio de los lectores.

Aunque para reirse podemos decir "Ojos que no ven, costalazo seguro"
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Buena. Nunca habí escuchado esa. (¿Qué significa?) Never I have listened to this.



Esa es la que yo conocía.

Pregunte para el beneficio de los lectores.

Aunque para reirse podemos decir "Ojos que no ven, costalazo seguro"
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Google joke! The English prverb "out of sight, out of mind was translated into Spanish. When the translation was turned back into English as a check it came back as "invisible, insane"

weird!
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@bobjenkins: "costalazo" is a colloquial way to say "golpe", "caída". If you close your eyes, you can stumble and fall.


@Hernán:
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@bobjenkins: "costalazo" is a colloquial way to say "golpe", "caída". If you close your eyes, you can stumble and fall.


@Hernán:
You said before that the word costalazo is one words used to colloquial way to say golpe.

I'm not sure with your answer, because I believe that the word golpe is simply golpe to me.


This simply is my own view point about it.
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