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in Chrome there is a nice translate option at the top, the comments of russian readers are pretty interesting

Neat feature, I didn't know Chrome could do that.

One of the more amusing auto-translated russian comments:

  say, lives on a pension mom.
  In place of my mother I would beat his frying pan. But not on the head.

http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2010/03/23_a_3341933.shtml?comm...

I'm going to guess at 'what if his mother lives on a pension? If I were his mother I'd beat him with a frying pan, but not on the head'.

it actually says that he lives on his mother's pension.

That's actually not that bad. Google voice does a number on translations when the message is in another language: "My telephone number on the most gorgeous of and ideas. Fits in."

The problem with Chrome's translate feature is that it keeps claiming that random pages are in some language that they aren't in, like Afrikaans, and offering to "translate" them. It's a bit annoying.

I had some broken (junk, seemingly random bytes rendered to screen as text) responses coming from IIS yesterday, and ended up with some very confused users asking me "why is the page in arabic?". Turns out, Chrome was telling them it was in arabic, and offering to translate it.

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