YOU SAID:
Rotten tomatoes are rotten tomatoes.
INTO JAPANESE
腐ったトマトは腐ったトマトです。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
A rotten tomato is a rotten tomato.
INTO JAPANESE
腐ったトマトは腐ったトマトです。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
A rotten tomato is a rotten tomato.
That didn't even make that much sense in English.