“Ah my Maya”

My co-worker Fran found out about David’s Long Bean Tofu Dish and forwarded it to our Chinese lunch crowd with the following comment:

“哎呀我的妈呀，他家的那只还真了不得呢。”

It could be roughly translated as, “Oh-là-là-là-là! Her dude is incredible!“

I forwarded David her email, and of course he immediately brought up his trusty Google Language Tools to translate it. And this was what he got:

“Ah my Maya, his family’s briefcase had not really?.“

!?

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我的北京同事李凡, 讀了石頭的四季豆豆腐菜之後, 非常佩服, 轉寄以下的評語給其他的中國同事們:

“哎呀我的妈呀，他家的那只还真了不得呢。” (“哎呀我的媽呀，他家的那隻還真了不得呢。”)

我轉寄給他, 他看不懂中文, 所以向Google求救. 結果翻成了什麼東東來著?

“啊我的瑪雅，他家的公事包真有假有?”

哎, 這什麼跟什麼嘛?