How I love Babel

[skyring]

I used Babelfische to translate a comment of mine about pasta sauce for Elhamisabel's blog, so she wouldn't wear her brain out in trying to work out what I was saying in Englische, and I translated it back again as a check to see if it came out the right way up.

Yes and no. I particularly enjoyed the conversion of "hard to go wrong" as "to strongly wrongly go").

What a lyrical program!

Ich verwendete Babelfische, um eine Anmerkung von meinen über Teigwarensoße für blog Elhamisabels zu übersetzen, also würde sie nicht ihr Gehirn tragen, heraus beim Versuchen, auszuarbeiten, was ich in Englische sagte, und ich übersetzte es zurück wieder als Überprüfung, um zu sehen, wenn sie aus der rechten Weise oben kam. Ja und Nr. genoß ich besonders die Umwandlung von "stark, um falsch zu gehen" wie ", stark falsch zu gehen"). Ein was für lyrical Programm!

Comments

[miketroll.livejournal.com]

That piece of German amply illustrates how easy it is to strongly wrongly go with a crude translation machine! Babelfish is fun because of all the mistakes it makes, but I'm disappointed it hasn't improved much over time. Yes, Babelfish translation is often a whole lot better than none at all, but there are so many elementary, easily curable wronglygoings that strongly suck.

[elhamisabel.livejournal.com]

Really, it is very lyrical. Apart from some mistakes it sounds very lyrical.

[emperor-fool.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite time-sucks is to put a joke into Babelfish and translate it through one or more languages and back to English. (Narrative jokes of the "Two tall guys and a duck walk into a bar..." sort tend to work better than one-liners.)

[dubnordie.livejournal.com]

One of my personal favourites:

In translating from English to Japanese and back, one software changed "The Grapes of Wrath" to "The angry raisins"

[wheres-my-tea.livejournal.com]

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