Let's try Google Translate!

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I'm still thinking about what to say in my keynote address since I don't know Korean but have to say something about translation . . . so I'm thinking, maybe Google Translate can help, so let's see:

Let's try Google Translate!

Google Translate renders this in Korean as:

의 구글 번역 해보자!

Let's see what Google Translate does in rendering that into English:

Let's Google Translate!

Now, back into Korean:

의 구글 번역하자!

And back into English:

Let's Google Translate!

Ah, have we reached stasis? Behold:

의 구글 번역하자!

Why, yes, we have!

Thus, "Let's try Google Translate!" means "Let's Google Translate!" -- and "의 구글 번역 해보자!" means "의 구글 번역하자!"

If only Sun-Ae and I had used this Google helper in translating Yi Kwang-su's novel The Soil!