Double-take, # 228

Not a description that guarantees effectiveness:

Link: Playepub, ‘Translator’

tanslate

Double-take, # 216

Not washed, cooked or even very believable — and yet it exists!

Link: Multilizer.com

docuemtns + syntax

Double-take, # 18

Available in Morrisons (sic) now:

It’s no secret that this sprout variety was named after the city, whose official website confirms how to spell its name in case anyone’s in doubt:

Link: City of Brussels

Now for a change of direction; but as we’re here I thought I'd share my surprise in discovering that the city has decided to use an automatic translator instead of a bilingual human being to render its pages into English. Disclaimers on every page make the potential problems clear and there is some odd phrasing:

Link: City of Brussels, ‘Municipal news’

The headline (quoted in the link below) isn’t quite right, but full marks to the programmer for correctly treating a range introduced by the preposition between:

Link: City of Brussels, ‘Traffic congestion by Balloon’s Day Parade’

which should, of course, be complemented by the conjunction and, not the illogical duplicate preposition to or the equally illogical (since it represents to) dash…