The Real “Big Freeze”

As a Brit living in Poland, I’ve heard a lot from people at home and the British media about “THE BIG FREEZE”, as they are calling the recent coming to a standstill of a lot of the country because of a bit of snow and temperatures occasionally going below zero.

Maybe this is why Google is acting up in China…

Been playing with Google Translate today, and it seems there is some room for improvement in the linguistic abilities at the world’s pre-eminent company. I simply, and probably unoriginally, took my post “The Mysterious Attraction of Snow”, put it through the translation process twice (into Polish and then this Polish version back into English). The results, mostly very close to the original but very amusingly different in places can be found below.

Poetry Corner

This first installment of a potentially regular feature, a winter themed haiku.

The Mysterious Attraction of Snow

(First written a while ago, but very appropriate in the current climate)