Multilingual Telephone: Lost in Translation

Friday, August 8, 2008

Multilingual Telephone: Lost in Translation

1. upost a sentence in English that you have made up.

2. Use Altavista's Babel Fish Translator to translate the sentence to another language and post the result.

3. Repeat #2 until you're bored.

4. Translate sentence back into English and post the result.

5. Have a good laugh. (Haha. Silly translator. You make no sense.)

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Jordan 57p · 869 weeks ago

What do you do once everything has been done?

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sigh · 869 weeks ago

How do you get rid of a pimple you've had for four weeks?

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gergir · 869 weeks ago

You and I have unfinished business.

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gergir · 869 weeks ago

Eux et moi-même ont l'affaire en suspens.

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caroline · 869 weeks ago

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

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caroline · 869 weeks ago

To Portuguese and back to English again, the results are surprisingly dirty:

As much as wood a woodchuck was able to play itself a woodchuck was able to play wood?