ID of anonymous posters via word analysis?

[Eli Brandt]

> Good question. I just checked a terse history of machine translation,
> and it didn't mention any version of this.

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")

   Eli   ebrandt at jarthur.claremont.edu