Babelfish fun - from English to Rubbish

[siestatime]

OK folk, here's another way to waste time on the Internet:

(1)You go to Altavista Babelfish

(2) Type in a saying, a proverb or a verse from a well known song.

(3) Translate from English into Japanese, Russian, Chinese ...

(4) Cut and Paste, then translate back into English.

(5) Enter the result in this forum, then people have to guess what the original might have been!

(6) Perhaps, if they haven't got anything more worthwhile to do, whoever correctly guesses it could post a new one.

So, I'll start it off with an easy one:

It's a proverb translated into Japanese.


"That is good, it is not the milk which is dropped by in excess shouts."

Any takers?

[brodski]

I'm guessing that it's no use cring over spilt milk.

or possibly "I suppose that it is not no use that shouts beyond the milk." :)


Ok, so try:
Missing of elements is not elements of the missing.

[ZERO]

Ok, so try:
Missing of elements is not elements of the missing.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. ?

[ZERO]

When luminous flux square did energy and being mainly it is a match

[bobdezon]

a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

english to danish and back to english =

within bird to the index nourishment two to the woods ;)

[Melanie]

better the devil you know than the devil you don't

to Russian and back again....


improve devil, is which you you know how devil you you do not do

[bindeweede]

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,

via Korean, becomes

pe Will be the green onion Rang bird to the white precipice


:cheesy:

[ZERO]

(5) Enter the result in this forum, then people have to guess what the original might have been!


What happened to guessing?

[seren]

We all got stuck on

When luminous flux square did energy and being mainly it is a match

It's E=MC2 I think? I just can't find the exact words you have put it in.

[Fiona]

This blowing which the world ends but hu method, is not in impression and

[Julia]

"The world will end not with a bang but with a whimper"?
How about this:
From English to Korean and back again:
The w five r thing money phase, it does not put your daughter in the Mrs. to dry,

[brodski]

"The world will end not with a bang but with a whimper"?
How about this:
From English to Korean and back again:
The w five r thing money phase, it does not put your daughter in the Mrs. to dry,


by some bizzare process is that perhaps "Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington"?

[siestatime]

We all got stuck on

When luminous flux square did energy and being mainly it is a match

It's E=MC2 I think? I just can't find the exact words you have put it in.

Seren, that was a good guess.

ZERO, I thought "luminous flux" had something to do with light flow, the rest flummoxed me.

I give in, what was the original sentence? Which language did you use to mangle it so exquisitely?

[Melanie]

You go out and the thing you wonder to peel, as you up comfort of the world are like that and sky you glitter and inside glittering, the diamond the together high enemy goes out and the star the thing it wonders as to peel, it glitters and the enemy whom it glitters the star

(hint; children's nursery rhyme! I am completely dumbfounded as to how the word 'enemy' got in there!)

[siestatime]

by some bizzare process is that perhaps "Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington"?

bizarre verging on the surreal ;D

I remember someone telling me that I would be out of a job thanks to Babelfish and other translating programmes.

Yeah right. ;)

BTW my favourite is "bothersomely die" which is $?!* off in Chinese. It has a nice Victorian ring about it .
"Bothersomely die, you scoundrel!"

Oh well, back to work. :sad:

[siestatime]

You go out and the thing you wonder to peel, as you up comfort of the world are like that and sky you glitter and inside glittering, the diamond the together high enemy goes out and the star the thing it wonders as to peel, it glitters and the enemy whom it glitters the star

(hint; children's nursery rhyme! I am completely dumbfounded as to how the word 'enemy' got in there!)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star?

Evil aliens alert! Or maybe it was the Death Star? ;)

[brodski]

E those feet in the old cover of the time in the green the sustentations of Joined Kingdom and had made the lamb of saint one of the god in the pleasant one had been seen grass of Joined Kingdom and had tolerated divine the end to shine in interested ours hillocks and were Jerusalem ahead builded here under those the rollings-mill of Satanic of dusk the door that my arc of the gold that burns the door my arrows of the desire loads me the mine the ' open clouds of buds me that mine structure of the fire of the mental fight will not arrest none so mine sleep of the sword in mine hand ' for very time how much they have leves you for loading Jerusalem in the green pleasant country and ' to the work of Joined Kingdom that we Jerusalem have in the green and to construct the pleasant country of the joined one of the kingdom.


It brings a patriotic tear to my eye.

[siestatime]

The beginning is pure Yorkshire :

eee, those feet!

[brodski]

The beginning is pure Yorkshire :

eee, those feet!


nah, this is it in pure yorkshrie

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( from here http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/yorkshire-translator.asp )

[seren]

BTW my favourite is "bothersomely die" which is $?!* off in Chinese. It has a nice Victorian ring about it .
"Bothersomely die, you scoundrel!"

;D;D

The first lol because of "bothersomely die", and the second because you actually looked up **** off on Babelfish. I'm just surprised I haven't done it yet myself.

See, we humans, we invent the phone book and use it to giggle at people called Mr C**khead, then we invent the internet and use it for pr0n and learning how to insult people from other countries. Sophisticated? ;)

[Julia]

by some bizzare process is that perhaps "Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington"?

Correct!

[brodski]

Correct!

I’m not sure which I find more disturbing, the mess that Babelfish made of that sentence, or the fact that I could guess what it was meant to say….

By which I mean

I am not certain that I find more to disturb, mess that Babelfish fêz of this sentence, or the fact that I could supo what he meant himself to say....

[siestatime]

brodski, the Yorkshire translation was hilarious! As I speak nearly 25 translators are busy changing their technical papers into Geordie or Scouse, talk about a language barrier :smiley:

seren, be honest, what were the first words you looked up in your Junior French dictionary at school? ^-^

Anyway that's what the Internet is for - writing to complete strangers, downloading things of dubious content and playing time-consuming pointless games.
Oh, and having fun.
Have I left anything out?

[ZERO]

We all got stuck on

When luminous flux square did energy and being mainly it is a match

It's E=MC2 I think? I just can't find the exact words you have put it in.


Seren, that was a good guess.

ZERO, I thought "luminous flux" had something to do with light flow, the rest flummoxed me.

I give in, what was the original sentence? Which language did you use to mangle it so exquisitely?
Sorry I took so long to get back to this thread.

Into Japanese and back, the original wording I used was:

"Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared"