Oct 6, 2009 at 2:48 AM
Join Date: Apr 6, 2009
Location: Forgotten Tower
Posts: 2052
Translations gone horribly wrong...
Ever heard of Translation Party? Or how about Lost in Translation?
They have very simple concepts, but are surprisingly fun.
Basically you give them an English phrase and they'll translate it back and forth through some other languages, directly and literally, and come up with some unexpected results.
Lost in Translation translates from and to 10 different languages, back and forth. Translation Party translates a phrase from English to Japanese until an equilibrium is found, or when it stops changing words.
{Phrases can loop and not equal out. Boots found one that just added "Please." on the front, and ended up with "Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please....." at the end.}
They're a great way to kill time. Here's some examples:
Lost in Translation:
I'm a little tea pot, short and stout.
translates into
They are a small POTENTIOMETER, short circuits and a beer of malzes of the tea.
a cookie is just a cookie, but fig newtons are fruit and cake.
translates into
biskuit has expert of biskuit, but Newton von Fig is fruit and hardens.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.
translates into
If the moon fixes its eye like a great vector of Fleischpie of the vector of Pizzapie, is the lover.
Translation party is a bit different:
Donkeys kill more people than terrorists.
translates into
Donkeys are more than terrorists who kill people.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
translates into {Warning, shocking revelation}
God is the black hole divided by zero.
Suing a law firm might be like trying to rob a gun store with a knife.
translates into
Please. Knife law firm is likely to contain a gun to rob the accused.
So, I'm sure you'll have tons of fun. We did.
{And lost several hours in the process}
Gives you more respect for human translators, and less trust in machine ones, eh?
On a side note, look at what happens if you give MG an incorrect link...
Ever heard of Translation Party? Or how about Lost in Translation?
They have very simple concepts, but are surprisingly fun.
Basically you give them an English phrase and they'll translate it back and forth through some other languages, directly and literally, and come up with some unexpected results.
Lost in Translation translates from and to 10 different languages, back and forth. Translation Party translates a phrase from English to Japanese until an equilibrium is found, or when it stops changing words.
{Phrases can loop and not equal out. Boots found one that just added "Please." on the front, and ended up with "Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please....." at the end.}
They're a great way to kill time. Here's some examples:
Lost in Translation:
I'm a little tea pot, short and stout.
translates into
They are a small POTENTIOMETER, short circuits and a beer of malzes of the tea.
a cookie is just a cookie, but fig newtons are fruit and cake.
translates into
biskuit has expert of biskuit, but Newton von Fig is fruit and hardens.
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore.
translates into
If the moon fixes its eye like a great vector of Fleischpie of the vector of Pizzapie, is the lover.
Translation party is a bit different:
Donkeys kill more people than terrorists.
translates into
Donkeys are more than terrorists who kill people.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
translates into {Warning, shocking revelation}
God is the black hole divided by zero.
Suing a law firm might be like trying to rob a gun store with a knife.
translates into
Please. Knife law firm is likely to contain a gun to rob the accused.
So, I'm sure you'll have tons of fun. We did.

{And lost several hours in the process}
Gives you more respect for human translators, and less trust in machine ones, eh?
On a side note, look at what happens if you give MG an incorrect link...