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When, one day, computers undertake to translate literary works, it will be the end of literature as we know it.

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➜ #147086将来、いつかコンピューターが文学作品の翻訳に着手するようになれば、われわれが知るような文学は最期を迎えることになるだろう。

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➜ #2707727Wenn es eines Tages Aufgabe der Rechner wird, literarische Werke zu übersetzen, so wird dies das Ende der Literatur, wie wir sie kennen, sein.

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➜ #3110420Quando, un giorno, i computer si impegneranno a tradurre opere letterarie, sarà la fine della letteratura come noi la conosciamo.

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 papabear papabear February 17, 2011 February 17, 2011 at 4:08:55 PM UTC link Permalink

There is a brief anthology called The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed that was allegedly written by a computer program called Racter in 1983. Wikipedia has articles about it, and Google has the full illustrated text as a PDF.