Re: ID of anonymous posters via word analysis?

[doug@netcom.com (Doug Merritt)]

Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> said
>And in the alt.folklore.urban FAQ we find:
>F. Russian/Chinese mechanical translator translates "out of sight, out of mind"
>   into "blind and insane".  Also "Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" 
>   as "the drink is good but the meat is rotten."
>
>(The "F" means "known to be false")

I think we were already agreeing that the folklore is false. The
remaining question is 'where did it originate'? My hypothesis was
that it came out of a linguistic research paper giving an example.
	Doug