For quarryquest :-)

[vera_j]

www.novinky.cz/koktejl/442981-v-liberci-vykvetl-giganticky-zmijovec.html 
Sorry, only in Czech but you understand the pictureLOL

Comments

[quarryquest]

That's brilliant. I put it into Google Chrome and it did an automatic translation of he text. I also got to read about what Paddy Power had done to the poor Cerne Abbas Giant. The National Trust must have been furious.

[watervole]

The Google English translation is hilarious.

Quarryquest recently posted a picture of a similar plant, though I'm not sure if it was the identical species.

[vera_j]

THis is the same plant, yes, but in bloom :-). The smell is terrible, like rotten meat...my friend used to have a VERY small species and she had to get rid of it.

Well, I did forbid all my students to use the Google translator and they understand. But some of those whose abstracts I translate, try to escape with sending THIS translation and asking "only for corrections". These I send back and translate an abstract from the very beginning. I have asked the agency that I am working for to stop this but they didn´t want to "discourage customers" ... :-)

[watervole]

I guess they really have no idea just how bad the translation is.

Czech isn't a language Google will have such a big database on.

Without the original, you wouldn't have a chance of doing a decent job, especially on anything scientific.

[watervole]

"With the first rays of the sun the whole thing collapses, the tip lays aside from his quiver and such a hood, roof, which opens above the genitals plants, so there it rained and nehnilo. And I hope there will develop seeds."

[vera_j]

Oh come ON!!! LOL! This is strong!

[watervole]

I didn't invent it :)

It did read a bit like a fan porn story...

[vera_j]

Exactly! LOL