The following comment on a Facebook story obviously flummoxed Bing completely, though the Google one wasn't much better. I don't think human translators need to fear for their jobs just yet.
Εχω υποστει και εγω επιθεση από τσοπανοσκυλα στον Ωρωπο και Φινλανδος φιλος μας στην Ακαδημια Πλατωνος πηγαινοντας για τα ΚΤΕΛ και κατεληξε στο νοσοκομειο
I
have ypostei and tsopanoskyla in vids by affixing Wrwpo and our
Finlandos filos Akadimia pigainontas for Platwnos and katelixe in KTEL
nosokomeio (Translated by Bing)
I have suffered from aggression, and I Sheepdogs Oropos Finns and friends in Plato's Academy Going on the bus and ended up in hospital (translated by Facebook)
The story being commented on was this one:
ca.news.yahoo.com
Sprawling
in the sun or barking and chasing cars, stray dogs have become part of
urban life in Bulgaria but after a pack mauled a US university professor
to death, the mood of tolerance is over.
Stray animals
Perhaps I should mention that in Athens stray animals, especially dogs, used to be rounded up by the city authorities and killed. Animal lovers protested, and so the policy changed. The stray animals were caught, sterilised and innoculated against various diseases, and then released again.
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