I’ve been using another of Douglas Adams’ brilliant imaginations quite a lot recently, the Babel fish. I’ve been doing business with a Company that only writes to me in Italian, I translate it into English using Google’s Babel fish, deduce their meaning and convert my replies into Italian the same way. Just for fun I’ve been re-translating my replies back into English, the results have been curious to say the least. The headline for this sub-forum translated into German and back again becomes:
Military forum the flight crew A for the specialists, those the Nichtzivilist hardware fly and the Hinterstübchenjungen and - girls, without whom nothing would leave the ground. Army, navy and Air Forces of the world, everything welcome evenly here
Good innit?