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Nat is amazing

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=856

Strip by: ifwewerepokemon

{Big Nate: 2008-11-09. The "throwaway panel", originally Nate's head coming out of a peanut chew wrapper, is replaced with xkcd 39, "Bowl".}
Nate: Yes, that's it!
Francis: What? Chewy peanuts?
Nate: It's not just chewy peanuts, Frances! This is my best Halloween gift!
Francis: It was an incredible success!
Nate: Well, that's not bad, right? I didn't finish it in one go, but spread it over nine days!
Nate (next panel, with gormless smirk): It's Superman's will, believe me!
Francis: em [sic]
Nate: And you, Francisco? How much money do you have left?
Francis: Well, at least...
Nate: There! So let's stay in touch!
Francis: ...Easter sweets.
[beat panel]
Nate: This is false.
Francis: Enjoy chewing peanuts.

The author writes:

Google Translate has come a long way since "gradually watermelon". Now, with new advances in machine translation, you can vaguely understand the dialogue, even after a bunch of translations! (In case it wasn't clear, the strip title is "Big Nate" ran through the same translations as the dialogue.

Languages used: English -> Spanish -> French -> Esperanto -> Portuguese -> Arabic -> Georgian -> German -> Greek -> French -> Russian -> Vietnamese -> Chinese Simplified -> Chinese Traditional -> Greek -> French -> Spanish -> English.

Original strips: Big Nate, 2008-11-09; xkcd, #39, "Bowl".