CHALLENGE: Pick a random DU thread title, run it through Babelfish, and re-post it here

[Amerigo Vespucci]

"Damn Sara Lee to hell....I broke down and bought one of the frozen pound cakes"...run through Babelfish, English-to-Russian, becomes:

Проклятое Сара Лее к аду….Я сломал вниз и купил один из замороженных тортов фунта

"My cat is acting like a fucking lovesick teenager!"...run through the English-to-Portuguese, becomes:

Meu gato está actuando como um adolescente lovesick do caralho!

Have fun.

:toast:

[Bicoastal]

1. Boring--how about this--

...run it through babel fish in a language of your choosing, but then translate it BACK INTO ENGLISH.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Hey...who broke Babelfish?

:rofl:

"Cursed Sarah leu to hell….I broke it downward and purchased one of the frozen cakes of the pound...

My cat is actuando as an adolescent lovesick of caralho!"

[Bicoastal]

4. Try Japanese.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. Oh, I know...

...I'd blame that one less on Babelfish and more on the fact that Japanese is one tough language. I took Spanish and French in school and, for the most part, you can go back and forth with relative ease between "literal translations." Not so in Japanese, and that's largely due to a major disconnect with Western colloquialisms.

I have a few books on Japanese culture, and from what I've read, the first Japanese citizen who taught the language to a Westerner was executed for their efforts.

The language is also peppered with what are called "loan words"...things like "ice cream" become "isu kurimo" (not an accurate spelling, but a correct pronunciation)...

:toast:

[JTG of the PRB]

2. ...

0100001101001000010000010100
1100010011000100010101001110
0100011101000101001110100010
0000010100000110100101100011
0110101100100000011000010010
0000011100100110000101101110
0110010001101111011011010010
0000010001000101010100100000
0111010001101000011100100110
0101011000010110010000100000
0111010001101001011101000110
1100011001010010110000100000
0111001001110101011011100010
0000011010010111010000100000
0111010001101000011100100110
1111011101010110011101101000
0010000001000010011000010110
0010011001010110110001100110
0110100101110011011010000010
1100001000000110000101101110
1100100001000000111001001100
1010010110101110000011011110
1110011011101000010000001101
0010111010000100000011010000
11001010111001001100101

Okay, so I technically didn't use Babelfish... So sue me! :P

[woo me with science]

6. The Lounge, in Redneck:

(click on "Dialectize")

http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=redneck&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democraticunderground.com%2Fdiscuss%2Fduboard.php%3Faz%3Dshow_topics%26forum%3D105



Several other dialects available at: http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/

[crim son]

7. More like the Lounge in Refuglican, IMHO. n/t

[woo me with science]

10. The spelling is too consistent. nt

[JonLP24]

8. That's funny

I've been reading several threads through that and with the larger threads are really hilarious. Thanks. I bookmarked this thread. :thumbsup:

[woo me with science]

9. I love, "Fry mah hide!" nt

[JonLP24]

14. I like the 'Elmer Fudd' too

I burst out laughing whenever they threw "Oh, dat scwewy wabbit!" in there.

[woo me with science]

11. "What's the strangest 'treat' you ever got for Halloween?"

αυτό που είναι το πιό παράξενο " treat" πήρατε πάντα σε αποκριές;


Translated back:

what is the strangest "? treat"? you took always in Carnivals?

[rug]

12. Confession: my first form out learning section were to the baby received back

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9099820

English > German > English

[Brickbat]

13. Thus j' they taught how to extract

It was "This is how I taught myself how to draw."