Playing Telephone with Google Translate

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

- Booker T. Washington

I then translated this quote through six obscure, unpronouncable languages (

Nyanja, Azerbaijani, Xhosa, Cebuano, Igbo, and Tajik) and this was the result:

“The achievement of the development of adolescents as a preventative barrier is not successful.”

-Google Translate

Apparently, a lot can get lost in the translation.