Babel Fish vs the Babel fish

The Babel fish is a small creature which, when inserted in the ear, allows you to instantly understand any language in the Universe. Babel Fish is a machine translation program by Altavista. If Arthur Dent had had to rely on Babel Fish, rather than the Babel fish, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy might have ended up looking something like this:

The ' doorwaadbare place, ' insisted Arthur, ' I weet or does not sound this as a foolish question, but what I here doing?' be
' Weet you well that, ' aforesaid doorwaadbare place. ' I saved you of the ground.'
' and what to the ground?'
Ah have happened. It is destroyed.
Levelly ' have it, ' aforesaid Arthur.
Yes. It cooked only gone in space. ,
' Aforesaid Arthur ' look at, ' I am a beetje that it is disturbed concerning that.'
Doorwaadbare place which becomes to itself and those is seemed frowned the idea round its roll opinion.
' yes, I can understand that, ' he said eventually.
' understand that!' shouted Arthur. ' understand that!'
The doorwaadbare place leaped.
' keep the examining book!' he hissed urgent.
' what?'
' not panic.'
' I panicking not!'
Are ' yes you.'
' already the right so that panicking I, what differently there must do?'
You meet only with me and have enough time good. The pretplaats of the galaxy. You must this fish in your ear.

Moral of the story: pay a human to do your translations (preferably me). Or put the fish in your ear.