A few weeks ago, I went to play tennis with my friend. We found the two courts beside us booked for some kind of tennis course.
I saw about 10 students who looked like to be in their twenties, all sitting in their chairs. The coach was standing in front of them making some kind of [...]

Here is my latest fish-joke. It was Chinese New Year last week. My colleague of Mexican origin instant-messaged me: ‘新年好’ (good New-Year). Obviously, he had been playing around with Google Translate. So I challenged him that, with the help of Google Translate, he should not have any more excuse not to chat with me in [...]

This story just came out today.
“A cunning pilot thwarted a hijacking by discreetly warning the passengers in French — a language the gunman didn’t speak — that he would knock the attacker off-balance with a rough landing, and that they should be ready to pounce.”
Note the irony that the hijacker wants to go to France, [...]

Here is a follow-up on my recent post “Fish Jokes“.
Although I discourage my fellow-bloggers to provide machine-translation links to their pages, from a reader’s point of view, I do find the existence of these links very meaningful. Indeed, they are extremely entertaining!
This site has just installed a WordPress plugin called the Global Translator, as described [...]

I have seen many bloggers providing Babel Fish links to instantly translate their blogs into many languages. Here is a piece of advice from me: Don’t!
Those who have used Babel Fish before should know that it does not provide accurate translations. Well, not even close! We have to understand that the service is intended to [...]