Re: The U.S. War on Journalists

On May 14, 11:59 am, richardcas...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Casady)
wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2008 14:16:10 GMT, "La N" <nilita2004NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> >I think through the years I've heard "You can trust me" or "You can
believe
> >in me" or "I would never lie to you" or "I'm telling the TRUTH"  too
many
> >times to *not* be cynical, if you get my drift ... ;)
>
> There is a story, undoubtedly false, about language software and the
> US USSR hot line. The people who operated the thing would send test
> messages, sometimes poetry back and forth. It seems that we sent '
> trust me' to the Russians who computer translated it into Russian,
> which they sent back. When we ran it through our computer and turned
> it back into English, it came out 'watch out'. Too good to be true,
> but I like it.
>
> Casady

The House GOP's new slogan -- "the change you deserve" -- also happens
to be the marketing slogan for an anti-depressant drug.

Smirnitzkiy (Dictionary) doesn't show that, but the translation may
have been keyed to a vocabulary.