Even if everything could literally translate, you could still have problems because a person wrote down the translation and could easily have made a mistake in doing so.

I can't help thinking of the joke... the Monk is down in the cellar, verifying by candlelight that the newly finished transcription is a perfect copy of the original. Tears are streaming from his eyes, he's beating his fists on the table, saying: "Celebrate. The word was CELEBRATE!"

tanstaafl.