Traducción recursiva de titulares

The headlines of four of the main Spanish newspapers (El Mundo, El País, El Periódico and La Vanguardia) are translated recursively with Google’s online translation service. The so-called recursive process supposes the translation of the original headline —in Spanish— into a second language, from this second language to a different third, from this third to a fourth and so on, going through all the languages that this translator admits, until returning the headline to its original language: Spanish.

The edition includes the result of this process, applied to a selection of headlines that appeared in the press from November 4 to 17, 2008, both inclusive.