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Fun With Online Translation
Here is a fun diversion (hat tip to Jimmy Kimmel show who did it with a scene from Jersey Shore)
Take a sentence and translate it into a foreign language on Babelfish or Bing Translator
Then translate that sentence into a 2nd language
Then back into English
I tried “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal” and took it from English to Japanese to French to English
I ended up with
“All created all men, holds the truth of these trivial.”
Try it out and let us know what you get…..
5 Responses to “Fun With Online Translation”
That’s interesting, Patrick.
The following (a little bit related) is something I came across a few weeks ago — and is still continuing.
There is site called “My Blog” that takes pieces posted on the web (including from here at TMV) and posts them on the site — a very professional looking site with beautiful artwork
However, the text appears to have been processed through some kind of word replacement routine, completely messing up one’s post.
Here’s an example:
My original post about Spain’s prosecutor Baltasar Garzon is here at TMV:
http://themoderatevoice.com/136437/the-prosecution-of-judge-baltasar-garzon-spain%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Clo-pasado-pasado-esta%E2%80%9D-attempt/
Now, look at the “translated” piece at the “My Blog” site:
http://1zlottieth.h-info.co.in/?p=2068
Can someone explain what this is all about?
google translator isnt all that bad… depending on the language.
I tried the trick. Went from English to Korean to Tamil to Afrikaans to English. The first sentence ended up as: The fact that all the people he will be born is also clear.
I use a translator a lot, the trick is to write as close to the other langage sentence structure as you can. Example: In english we would write, How do you feel today, if translating to a latin derived language you would write, today you feel well? There are other ways to structure this sentence, but I hope you get what I mean. Or, my meaning you understand?
talk like Yoda we should