From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!zeppo!whuxlb!ech
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Re: Time flies... - (nf)
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.525
Posted: Wed Sep  8 01:43:58 1982
Received: Thu Sep  9 03:07:58 1982

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whuxlb!ech    Sep  8 01:16:00 1982

	"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"

That's no joke -- it's a paradigm for the difficulty of natural language
processing.  Reminds me of an early (50's) experiment in word-for-word
translation.  "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak", when translated
from English to Russian and back, came out "the vodka is good, but the
meat is rotten".

=Ned=