02-28-2013, 05:23 AM
I used to play a game with the online translators, reminiscent of the "telephone" game we played as children. If you're not familiar with "Telephone", you basically have a bunch of kids sit in a circle, and then you tell one of them something, and have them tell the person next to them, who tells the person next to them, and so forth, until it reaches the person next to whomever was originally told the message. Then the original message is spoken aloud for everyone to hear, and the person getting it last speaks what they heard told to them. The differences can be astonishing, and quite hilarious.
Online language translators can be used to similar hilarious effect. But it takes a while to do it manually. Someone came up with an automatic way to do it.
Bad Translator:
http://ackuna.com/badtranslator#
I'm going to start us off with some interesting translations of things I test it with, and anyone else can join in with their own translations and results.
Here we go.
Original text:
"We hold these thruths to be self evident, that all men are created equal."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"And what you need to do the same."
Original text:
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Lex finds out how many trees can be removed."
Original text:
"Thou shalt not kill."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"If the muscles"
Original text:
"It is my humble opinion that cow's milk tastes significantly better than goat's milk, but of course that is only my humble opinion."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"There are a large number of goats. TLC, but will be."
The same thing, translated in order of languages in the list:
Original text:
"It is my humble opinion that cow's milk tastes significantly better than goat's milk, but of course that is only my humble opinion."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"It's the smell of goat's milk. My opinion so it is"
And now some random language order translations of the same phrase after 35 translations:
"Mountain goat's milk is very good: it seems to me, try. It seems to me"
"Goat's milk, milk of cow, but, Yes, in my opinion, the best."
"Goat milk cow deadlock hunger on the head from the milk. Yes, on my head:"
"Goat milk is interesting. However, Yes, Yes, this is just my opinion."
And last but not least:
Original text:
"Bad translator."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Was not valid."
"Bad game."
"A poor country."
"Bad Hall"
"Very bad"
"Zavall Tumacz. "
" . "
Wow. That's bad.
Online language translators can be used to similar hilarious effect. But it takes a while to do it manually. Someone came up with an automatic way to do it.
Bad Translator:
http://ackuna.com/badtranslator#
I'm going to start us off with some interesting translations of things I test it with, and anyone else can join in with their own translations and results.
Here we go.
Original text:
"We hold these thruths to be self evident, that all men are created equal."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"And what you need to do the same."
Original text:
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Lex finds out how many trees can be removed."
Original text:
"Thou shalt not kill."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"If the muscles"
Original text:
"It is my humble opinion that cow's milk tastes significantly better than goat's milk, but of course that is only my humble opinion."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"There are a large number of goats. TLC, but will be."
The same thing, translated in order of languages in the list:
Original text:
"It is my humble opinion that cow's milk tastes significantly better than goat's milk, but of course that is only my humble opinion."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"It's the smell of goat's milk. My opinion so it is"
And now some random language order translations of the same phrase after 35 translations:
"Mountain goat's milk is very good: it seems to me, try. It seems to me"
"Goat's milk, milk of cow, but, Yes, in my opinion, the best."
"Goat milk cow deadlock hunger on the head from the milk. Yes, on my head:"
"Goat milk is interesting. However, Yes, Yes, this is just my opinion."
And last but not least:
Original text:
"Bad translator."
...35 translations later, Bing gives us:
"Was not valid."
"Bad game."
"A poor country."
"Bad Hall"
"Very bad"
"Zavall Tumacz. "
" . "
Wow. That's bad.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!
