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\"Laughter<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t something I found online. I actually made the above myself. I saw Facebook offering to translate laughter, and just had to click to see what it offered as the translation.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the deeper significance? Laughter is untranslatable? Laughter needs no translation? Bing is useless? All of the above?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This isn\u2019t something I found online. I actually made the above myself. I saw Facebook offering to translate laughter, and just had to click to see what it offered as the translation. What\u2019s the deeper significance? Laughter is untranslatable? Laughter needs no translation? Bing is useless? All of the above?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":29829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,52,96],"tags":[1194,3309,6380,12839],"class_list":["post-29828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-languages","category-technology","tag-bing","tag-facebook","tag-laughter","tag-translation"],"yoast_head":"\nThanks, Bing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This isn't something I found online. I actually made the above myself. 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