My latest ebay purchase was a hard drive case – I was very impressed as it has a major feature I’ve never heard of before: “Prohibition to Throw Down“

I’m still not sure what this means but it’s sure to come in handy one day.

So in my quest to find out what it means, I went to http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr.
Here I translated this title by parsing it through every language, hoping for a cure, but the best that came out was “This one prohibits the costume which played” – What the?

So what about a test with some words which might be ambiguous (aka Contranyms):
Here I translated the sentance below to each Language shown then back to English…

“I thought I would table the idea that we should weather the storm, but we decided that to stay fast. Quite a solid move I believe.“
& THE WORST TRANSLATION AWARD GOES TO KOREA!
Korean: It goes out and that we must overcome storm right, it will put an idea in the table and theyn the place thing me it thought, but we in order to stay quickly decided that. It goes out and it believes and it is hard positively and and it moves.

THE BEST(!)
German: I thought that I would shift the idea that we should weather the storm, but we decided that, in order to remain fast. Quite a firm movement, which I believe.

The Rest:
French: I thought that I would defer the idea that us should draw us from business, but we decided that to remain quickly. Completely a full movement which I believe.

Portuguese: I thought that I would price the idea that we must resist the storm, but we decide that one to remain quickly. Completely a movement that continuous I believe.

Simple Chinese: I thought I meet the scheduling idea we to be supposed to undergo the storm, but we decided that fast pauses. Is equal solid migration which I believed.

Russian: I thought 4 will be placed idea on the consideration that we they must maintain storm, but we solved that in order to remain rapidly. Sufficiently solid motion, I is which I believe.

Yep. Ebay english.
Turns out its a ball of sting that can’t be untangled.

Personally I love it. Buying appliances has never been so much fun.