Just weeping with laughter

[dianeduane]

Or: How Babelfish will not necessarily solve all your translation problems

(It's a menu. But what a menu. Some of the dishes in it sound more like attack moves from Sailor Moon.)

Tags: menu, restaurant, foreign, translation, laughter, astonishment, cowboy leg??

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[posicat.livejournal.com]

It sounds like the kind of interesting translations you get using Googles translator. This page goes from English to German to French and back to English through Google. I had loads of fun cutting and pasting snipits from my stories into it to see how they mutated. Sometimes I really liked the changes, sometimes it was just plain bizarre.

http://douweosinga.com/projects/poetryintranslation

babelfish

[(Anonymous)]

you can do the same on babelfish - we tried 'make me a channel of your peace' and got

"Master concession by Oh, which I can
look for never so much, in order to be GET-ROASTED, which concerns the
console; to be understood, what, to understand; over to be liked, what
concerns the love with all my soul".

Christmas carols are even funnier...