March 19th, 2008 -- by Bacchus
Robot Love
It’s the King of The Robots, about to get a passionate kiss from a woman:
Found at Urod.ru under the caption Старые фото о главном, which translates to “Old photos of {blank}”, where {blank} is a word I don’t know and which Google Translate renders unhelpfully as “main”.
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Google is correct – it actually means “the main thing” or “the most important thing”. I can only assume the main thing is love in this case?
Thanks, Alice, I appreciate the translation.
When I said Google was being unhelpful, I didn’t mean to suggest it was wrong — it’s just that machine translation often fails to fill in missing cultural information. I’m not sure what is supposed to be “main” on that page, but presumably the headline writer thought it was obvious.
Oh, Collective Farm Robot King, I love your
vibrating action, but I DO wish I could give
birth to more than just toy tractors!”
Our Russian visitor says she remembers this from an old Russian film based on the Wizard of Oz. So now you know why the tin man really needed to be oiled/