Babelfish translations

Babelfish is an on-line translator that, while of no use for anything needing serious translation, is great fun and a good writing tool.

See what I mean:

I typed in lyrics from Annie's "Tomorrow" (ten points if you can quote the line!), translated them into traditional Chinese, and then back into English. I ended up with:

"Whether there is the consideration will eliminate the spider web tomorrow and sorrowfully until."

Pretty, huh?

I've been using babelfish to see if my poems are too punctuation-dependent and to see if I use enough words that illicit emotion. My result: a lot of my writing apparently needs some work.

Try it out at http://world.altavista.com/tr and let me know how it works for you. Post good translations here- they are often thought provoking or terribly funny.

English to Russian:

The world is your oyster.

Russian to English:

Peace will be your oyster.

Every time I try, it always works perfectly...


So I tried typing in something mad ('I like doing nothing but watch the sky roll past, whilst simultaniously eating a hot dog'), translated it into Italian, then from Italian into Greek, then from Greek into Portugease, then from Portugease into German and finally from German into English.

And it still translated perfectly (at which point I gave up and posted this message)...

http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/

That site is like Bablefish, but it automatically translates it into a ton of languages and then back to english.

The following place becomes is Bablefish and this way, but the material of the conversion and in the ton with English automates.

See?

Oh God, not Annie. Anything but Annie--BAD MEMORIES BAD MEMORIES!

Yeah, Babelfish is pretty cool stuff--me n' my ex messed with it one night, got some pretty hilarious results.

Heheh just for fun I took a simple, innocuous phrase ("I like chocolate best") and translated it into French, then Greek, then back to English, and it ended up as: "I better like the chocolate" (or else!) LMAO. Its kinda like playing Chinese Whispers. So, having enjoyed this experiment, I decided to translate my siggy ("If I have not love, then I am nothing.") first into Dutch, then into French, then into Italian, then to English again, and it became "If I do not have a love, then they are not null." Three cheers for the tower of Babble!

Oh and I tried it in Lost in Translation too, and they gave me; "If it must not appreciate it, therefore it is."
Very deeeeep....

"This lucky plant of the approach, " the hunter; They identify of
its cycle of the torsion animal, had made the examinación d, that the
material pain is of " he manual he you; -- anonymity"

Guess who's sig that is?

And here's another:
"They are always appreciate."

And guess who?
"History LEE this! A diverse duration (r)! It can have like the
consequence, of that spontaneously combusting the form nongiven
therefore!"

Let's try my signature.

"You can argue the point all you want, sir, but Neil Armstong's masculinity is NOT proof that we are superior to women. And on a side note, I'm sure women already know he's a man."

to

"They can negotiate the whole end, the one that you demand, getlteman
honest, but maleness of Neil Armstong is not test, that we ordered in
the women. And in lateral celebrity, she is sure that the women know
from are a man."

I translated my signature:

A queer and fearful question is tight, oppresses my soul and tosses:
Can one be alive if Atreus has died -- Has died on a bed of roses.

Kiss me, Kate. // Up yours, weirdo.

- into Dutch, then Spanish, then back to English.

A rare and afraid question is tightened, presses my soul and it shakes it:
The tin one is alive if Atreus has died -- it has died in a bed of roses.

Me kiss Kate // Upon yours, stranger.

*grins*

CL that is hilarious!

A fun thing to do is, take a message, translate it to japanese, then back to english, then back to japanese.... and keep going until it stops!

The message is gonna be screwed up.

I translated the beginning of Joni Mitchell's "Down To You" - the first thing that came to mind - from English to Spanish and back.

"Everything comes and goes
Marked by lovers and styles of clothes."

...became...

"Everything you eat and goes
Marked by lovers and styles of clothes."

Everyone together now... wtf?

WTF? Crazy spanish people, translating come to eat.

From:

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear.
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair.
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy-
Was he?

With an interlude in translation of Greek to French, French to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English to French, and French back to English:

Not De Sygkehyme '. Wuzzy was a bear. Not De Sygkehyme '. Wuzzy did not have any trj ' ha of it. Not De Sygkehyme '. Wasn't Wuzzy sygkehyme ' we-with is this?

It's not even all English!!!!!! OMG that was fun!!!!! lol

I like to swim in my swimming pool turned into:

Esteem the situation you swimming and my washbasin of the river