Friday, March 05, 2004

Major Breakdown Department, Part Deux!
In a stunning turn of events, NEC's speech to speech translator has stopped translating for tourists at Tokyo's Narita Airport and has begun talking to itself. Witnesses say that the button-eyed translator will first utter a phrase in English and then one in Japanese in response. Children have been ushered out of earshot as the cute 'bot banters back and forth to itself in some of the foulest slang and colloquialisms contained in either language, punctuated by a tittering laugh that inventors claim they never programmed. Those who have not contracted the vapors at the scene as a result of its verbal onslaught claim that the remarks all seem to center around French waiters, or something much like that.
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