The Great Google Translator!

Kimchiman Vents Displeasure With Google Translator

(Image from You Tube)

Richardson of DPRK Studies reports that Joshua of One Free Korea happened onto a Google Translator that will even deal with Korean-to-English translations!

This could prove really useful to me in my Gypsy Scholar work. No longer will I need rely on The Marmot or similar fly-by-night through hole-in-the-wall blogs for my Korea news.

I can just just plug some Hangul into Google and get better than Babel.

Some guy who calls himself Kimchiman didn't like it, though, and vented his wrath on You Tube:

"아리랑, 아리랑, 아라리요... 아리랑 고개로 넘어간다. 나를 버리고 가시는 님은 십리도 못가서 발병난다!"

According to Google Translator, he said:

"Arirang and Arirang, Oh li bedspread! It goes over with the Arirang head. It will carry and to throw away it goes and less than ten li go and outbreak of illness they are born!"

Wow! No wonder he was pissed! Yet, who would have known ... without the great Google Translator?

But I would have preferred that he refrain from cursing. That "Holy Bedspread!" stuff is just too much.