How odd! Why would two intelligent people, each of whom spoke the other’s language well, do this? My own experiences with machine-translation software had always led me to be highly skeptical of it. Frank would write a message in English, then run it through Google Translate to produce a new text in Danish conversely, she would write a message in Danish, then let Google Translate anglicize it. ![]() However, to my surprise, during the evening’s chitchat it emerged that the two friends habitually exchanged emails using Google Translate. As for his friend, her English was fluent, as is standard for Scandinavians. I knew Frank spoke Danish well, because his mother was Danish, and he had lived in Denmark as a child. One Sunday, at one of our weekly salsa sessions, my friend Frank brought along a Danish guest.
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