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Tinkerbell

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Machine translation made my week-end.

What does it mean? Machine translation (the money I earned from it) made my weekend holiday?
 

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Machine translation made my week-end.

What does it mean? Machine translation (the money I earned from it) made my weekend holiday?
Your guess is as good, or bad, as mine. It is impossible to know what the speaker/writer meant without more context.
 

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I've been translating my novel to English and from time to time I put some parts of it on to writing forums. Today, someone told me that he got the impression that I used translation programs for it. I said it's nonsense, even I translated two paragraphs with google translation tool and posted that absurd translation to the forum. But again another person told me that my grammar (my own translation, of course -- not google trans.) is very bad etc. etc.
And as a "P.S." she said "Machine translation made my week-end."
 
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I'd interpret it the same way as SoothingDave in that context.
 
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