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The Babelfish Game

Sekhmet

21:06 / 29.11.04

This is kind of like the Telephone game, only with Babelfish.

You take a sentence and type it into Babelfish, and translate it into another language. The next person can take the result and translate it into another language, and so on. Eventually the sentence will come full circle into its original language, and be completely unrecognizable and hopefully amusing.

Here's the toy:
Babelfish Translator

Okay... Go!

Alex's Grandma

22:03 / 29.11.04

Der andere Tag entschied Ich, alle meine Sachen, mein leben in einer Weisse, in die Halle am Ende des Gartens zu verschieben, und mein Frau hat verlassen.

Bed Head

22:06 / 29.11.04

L'autre jour j'ai décidé de décaler toutes mes choses, mon vis dans blancs, dans le hall à la fin du jardin , et mon la femme a quitté.

Sekhmet, you’ll have to decide when enough’s enough.

iconoplast

02:00 / 30.11.04

L'autre dia j'ai decidido deslocar todas as coisas, o meu parafuso em brancos, o salão no fim do jardim, e a minha mulher deixou.

Sekhmet

14:08 / 30.11.04

Bloody hell. Okay, so we had English to German... unless the original sentence was auf Deutch... German to... French, and then French to... what is that last one, iconoplast? Spanish? Italian? I get my Romance langauges confuzzled anyway, and I think some of the words just didn't translate at all.

Even if you just take the very first one and go straight back to English from German, you get:

"The other day decided I, all my things, mine live into white ones, in resounds at the end of the garden to shift, and my woman left."

What the hell was your original sentence, Alex?

(I love Babelfish. Automatic translators are funny, because they suck.)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:18 / 30.11.04

and my woman left.

Well frankly I'm not surprised.

Bear

14:23 / 30.11.04

Я люблю рыб babel, я думаю он заслуживает намного больше кредит! медведь любит перевод рыб!

Bear

14:25 / 30.11.04

But you can only go from Russian back to English, bah!

Sekhmet

14:51 / 30.11.04

But it's kinda cute when you do...

"I love fishes babel, I think it it deserves considerably more credit! bear loves the transfer of fishes!"

Sekhmet

14:54 / 30.11.04

Which is true, you know. Grizzlies and salmon come to mind.

Alex's Grandma

15:49 / 30.11.04

It was something like;

" The other day, I decided to move all my things, my life in a way, into the shed at the end of the garden, and my wife has left. "

I need to get out of the house more, probably.

Triplets

17:14 / 30.11.04

Amo i pesci Babele, io penso che esso meriti considerevolmente più accreditamento! l'orso ama il trasferimento di fishes!

iconoplast

02:59 / 01.12.04

I translated the french into Portuguese, you ignorant heathens.

From whence it's only translatable back to French or to English, so here:

"L'autre determined day j'ai to dislocate all the things, my screw in whites, the hall in the end of the garden, and my woman left."

Sekhmet

12:41 / 01.12.04

"My screw in whites?"...

Portuguese. That would be why I couldn't place it. I am chastened.

J'aime les poissons Bazar, pense qu'il mérite considérablement plus de crédit ! l'orso aime le transfert fishes de !

Whale... Whale... Fish!

11:35 / 02.12.04

J'aime denken de vissen Bazar, qu'il waard zijn aanzienlijk meer krediet! l'orso houdt van de overdracht fishes van

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