Re: ID of anonymous posters via word analysis?

Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> said

And in the alt.folklore.urban FAQ we find: F. Russian/Chinese mechanical translator translates "out of sight, out of mind" into "blind and insane". Also "Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" as "the drink is good but the meat is rotten."

(The "F" means "known to be false")

I think we were already agreeing that the folklore is false. The remaining question is 'where did it originate'? My hypothesis was that it came out of a linguistic research paper giving an example. Doug