Re: [takana] "photo-picture" (Google translation of Japanese message)

Ben Bullock wrote:
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「キルファイルの友」のCindyさんの名字は田中なのかもしれないのでしょうか。

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For the benefit of any nutsos, fruitcakes, UFO watchers, FBI watchers,
and other mentally unhinged loonies who may have started reading this
newsgroup recently, but who have not been reading long enough to acquire
Japanese language skills, I'd like to offer a translation of the above.
This is courtesy of Google's online translation, and I think everyone
here will agree that Google's translator does an excellent job. [...]

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As for the name letter of Cindy “of the friend of the kill file” it
probably is perhaps it is Tanaka?

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It certainly has a certain "ring", not to say a certain "panache".
Strange that it doesn't know words like 名字 and デタラメ though.

I was quite impressed with its ability to handle 田中なのかもしれないの
でしょうか. That had stumped me, and I've been trying to learn Japanese
waaaay longer than Google.

Bart
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