Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
It's weird, I looked at the first few posts in the thread there about fuel surcharges. They have been largely copied from ORP here but words have been changed, and some left out. I don't think that form of editing would be entirely mechanical, it had to be done by someone manually with some knowledge of the English language.
I suspect that it was sent into a program like Babelfish to be translated into a foreign language and then re-translated into English. That is the most probable explanation for how ridiculous the rewrites were.