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#58
Originally Posted by texaslabrat View Post
It is just a literal word-for-word translation without regard to the differences in sentence structure and idioms between the 2 languages. Having a little knowledge in Russian, I recognize the word usage as what I would say in Russian, but it just happens to be printed out using English spelling.

So yeah, it comes out looking a little weird, I agree
His Russian is very casual/slang rich anyway and that doesn't help translators, human or machine...