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Just for fun I used Freetranslation.com to computer translate a well 
know paragraph From Harry Potter to French and then back into 
English. The original paragraph is below it. I think the second 
paragraph is a tad better.

Almost ten years had passed since Dursleys had woken to the discovery 
their nephew on the front step, but the unity of Privet had changed 
of the all hardly. The sun risen on the front gardens of similar tidy 
and reads in top the number four of copper on Dursleys' the front 
door; it crawled in their living room, that was almost exactly 
similar so to speak on the night when M. Dursley had seen that the 
new fatal ones retrieve owls. Only photograph them on the really 
showed mantelpiece how much the time had passed. Ten years ago, 
there had been a lot of pictures of that that seemed of a big one to 
carry pink beach bullet different-colored caps - but Dursley Dudley 
was either long a baby, and now photograph them showed a big boy of 
blond one traveling his the first bicyclette, on a carousel to the 
just one, to play a computer game with Mother. The room did not hold 
sign of the all that another boy lived in the house, also. 

Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find 
their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed 
at all. The sun rose on the same tidy front gardens and lit up the 
brass number four on the Dursleys' front door; it crept into their 
living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had been on the 
night when Mr. Dursley had seen that fateful news report about the 
owls. Only the photographs on the mantelpiece really showed how much 
time had passed. Ten years ago, there had been lots of pictures of 
what looked like a large pink beach ball wearing different-colored 
bonnets - but Dudley Dursley was no longer a baby, and now the 
photographs showed a large blond boy riding his first bicycle, on a 
carousel at the fair, playing a computer game with his father, being 
hugged and kissed by his mother. The room held no sign at all that 
another boy lived in the house, too.