BBC NEWS | Magazine | Getting lost in the translation: "Earlier this month the small German town of Homberg-an-der-Efze, north of Frankfurt, had to pulp an entire print run of its English-language tourism brochure - after officials used an internet translating tool to translate the German text.
Tourists were promised 'casual value', the literal translation of the German word for 'leisure potential', at venues such as the 'free bath' - better known as an 'open-air swimming pool'. "
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
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