Is Automatic Translation 100% reliable yet?

One of the reasons is probably that Norwegian is a small language and Google is not spending a lot of effort on unraveling its peculiarities. There are two effects that render the opening sentence "She lay with her face pressed into the pillow and noticed that the tears ran down his cheeks , made ​​cushion cover wet" incomprehensible, and I can explain one of them. In the Norwegian original, the possesive pronoun does not reflect gender, and hence one cannot tell from the word itself whether it should be translated as his or her. The translator guesses right the first time ("her face"), but misses the second time ("his cheeks"). The part I don't understand is that it also misses an obvious relative clause — it should be: "... and noticed that the tears THAT ran down HER cheeks made the cushion cover wet". As for the rest of the paragraph, it probably helps to know that in Norwegian the word for spanking is the same as word for rice.

Speaking of which, does anyone know of a good James Joyce to English translator.

LOL No kidding!! I was quite perplexed by the 'rice' references. I thought it was some kinky Norwegian thing... you already do strange things with fish (lutfisk, is it?), so why not rice as well.

Smearing cold rice on a bare bottom beats (sic!) spanking any day.

Cold and WET rice, I presume!

It has to be wet and sticky, otherwise it is no fun.

Alef It has to be wet and sticky, otherwise it is no fun.

Yes - but what about the rice?

LOL When it gets wet and sticky, you tend to forget about the rice.

It's nice to know some sentiments are universal in ANY language.

Oh my.... where did I end up?

Alan wants to use polyurethane adhesive as an enema, Alef suggests cold sticky rice ....

any more pervert ideas how to use a bottom?