Schools are closed tomorrow in anticipation of Tropical Storm Ernesto (erstwhile TD, TS, and hurricane Ernesto). Just my luck, I recycled my Hurricane Diet post back at the start of hurricane season. So, inspired by another post I’m working on, I did this instead. I took this text:

Hello Ernesto,
Welcome to Central Florida. We have closed our schools for the day. We hope that you pass through gently. And, I realize you may not be able to accommodate this, but I would really like to keep my home intact and my electricity connected. Please?

and ran it through Babelfish to translate it into Spanish getting this

Hola Ernesto, recepción a la Florida central. Hemos cerrado nuestras escuelas para el día. Esperamos que usted pase a través suavemente. Y, realizo que usted no puede poder acomodar esto, pero realmente quisiera guardar mi intacto casero y mi electricidad conectó. ¿Por favor?

which I then ran back through Babelfish to translate into English getting this

Hello Ernesto, reception to central Florida. We have closed our schools for the day. We hoped that you happen smoothly to traverse. And, I make that you cannot be able to accommodate this, but really wanted to keep my intact caretaker and my electricity connected. Please?

There’s an old joke about a group of programmers working on software to translate between English and Chinese. One day they were testing it and sent “Out of sight, out of mind” through the program. But when they got the output, no one was nearby that could read the Chinese. So they sent it back through the program again and got “Invisible idiot”.

Sure hope I still have a home and electricity tomorrow!

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