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"How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop?"
--->
"TSUTTSUSHIRORUPOPPUSU opportunities."
"Please stop laughing and give me my pants" ->
"You can stop the laughter of my pants."
I'm already having too much fun with this.
Deep Ones:
-Thank you for the generous bribe for the contract.
-I am afraid that your father has been eaten by the hippopotamus.
-Seldom have I met a person who so personifies stupid.
Deadlocked:
-Your mother wears Army boots.
My Best One (Yet):
-Once, I was a prince with power over millions, now I sell cars with leather.
I found an infinite loop:
http://www.translationparty.com/#1608376
Cut and paste mails from your boss for endless amusement.
I hit an infinite loop on my first try: "Just got a call from someone at the bank."
The English flopped back and forth between "Now, get a phone call from the bank." and "Now, get a call from the bank." It never reached equilibrium.
I changed it to "Got a call from someone at the bank." and it reached equilibrium at "If you, or you can contact the bank?"
Gestarescala, anyone?
That PKD novel had something pretty much like this.
Can someone please explain? What is the "equilibrium" in question?
Way back in the day I used to play with altavista's babelfish, translating things back and forth, to see what kind of ridiculous things it would produce. It would give me hours of entertainment. But I never knew or heard of this "steady state" or "equilibrium" thing...
"Insert tab A into slot B at a 90 degree angle." certainly explains some of the crazy ass instructions I've seen in the past. :)
I entered "My mother, who died when she was twenty-nine, always said "Son, you can't have too many pickles" whenever I wanted a snack."
The translator died; its last gasp at attempting to find equilibrium was "He said, "" I always MOGA overprescription years, her mother, in my house died in the year 2009, it is my son."
I love this stuff.
It's incredible how often I get the complete opposite of the original meaning.
Smiths lyrics work great.
Ended up with:
Before it cut me off for an infinite loop.
please refer to the distinctive smell
"Without masters or slaves, with neither rich nor poor."
becomes
"In each case, the master and slave of the rich and poor."
...?
http://tinyurl.com/pnml8w
Fun stuff:
I do = I do not.
May the Force be with you. = October 5 power, to please
Lincoln said what?
"A score of 1-4 years ago, the seven continents of freedom, equality of people's ancestors are thought to have been created to lead the country."
from
"may the force be with you"
to
"June 5, 2007"
in: if its not love then its the bomb that will bring us together
out: Love, not bombs,
Hit a loop: http://www.translationparty.com/#1613033
She saw seashells on the seashore. Nice to know even machines have a problem with that one!
Tak, we've been rumbled!
Anon@7: Spot on. For English speaking readers, it's the Galactic Pot Healer.
"[the protaganist's] one entertainment is to call various friends on the worldwide telephone network and swap puzzles. These puzzles are based on imperfect translations of sayings and book titles obtained by using language translation computers available to anyone. The object of the game is to guess the original from the translation. Of course, even these entertainments are devoid of creativity, the only choice being which saying or book title to use. The author leaves one puzzle unexplained: "Bogish Persistentisms" by "Shaft Tackapple"."
- wiki
Hey, I've got Dylan in my head today...
"It don't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"
...reduced to...
"What is expected in the wind?"
Please, consider the use of spanish for this web. We are 450 millions of speakers.
-----------------------------------------------
Here, the web, please consider the use of Spanish. 400,000,000 100005000 speaker companies.
"To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die."
became
"We face the loss of Paradise Road" at steady-state.
Fascinating.
It also hauntigly poetic:
"The time of hippopotamus at last has come to arise again"
Becomes: "Time, Finally, the hippo"
I will travel to Japan to fuck a girl ----> I will travel to Japan to care for girls.
"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
became:
"Cthulhu R'lyeh dead, please refer to wait for a home of their dreams"
Chomsky's infamous Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
http://www.translationparty.com/#1617150
I wrote a similar web app that did round-trip translations (to/from any language). My idea was if you could write (and rewrite) your input language so that the round-trip translation produced the same sentence, then presumably (!!) the intermediate translation preserved your intention.
I know there must be exceptions, but it seems like you have a better chance if you write (or learn to write) easily translatable English.
Very helpful. When I get dumb Limbaugh-esque forwards from my less progressive friends and coworkers I like to run them once forward and backwards through an online translator then send them back (hey, you wasted my time with gibberish, now enjoy this...) - I think of it as sort of an I Ching for the easily amused (that's me). This does a much more thorough job! Brilliant.
words are floating out like endless rain into a paper cup
If at the end of words instead of paper cups, you can swim in the rain
This is a Dadaist dream come true.
"Don't ask don't tell" ==> "Please me"
See? I Ching!
"Enter a phrase intro Translation Party and it will translate it into Japanese and back into English as many times as it takes to reach steady state."
is
"English, in Japan, all concerned, please provide a translation of the word transformation of the country."
Love it! I found one where at least the first translation was better than the original.
I put in: "That bitch better have my money."
The first "back to english" was "Bitch better have my money," which of course is much closer to the true original in style and tone.
Then of course it careened off a cliff. http://www.translationparty.com/#1618421
Yet somehow "We recommend women of my money" still seems to have some of the original connotations..
take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. take me home (oh, won't you please take me home?)
becomes
My daughter is taking Paradise City is a pretty green lawn. My house (Oh, and I go home?)
"Aw, he thinks he's people...."
I love this darn thing! Milton's "Me miserable! Which way shall I fly infinite wrath and infinite despair?" becomes "I am miserable! My anger and despair, infinite, or one or two along the endless road, while walking??" Yeah, that's some crazy shit for sure!
I farted. >>> I was just cheese.
It would be cool for them to do this with other languages.
My dog has no nose. How does he smell? Awful.
became
Has the nose of a dog. Smell like him? Awful.
Arkizzle:
Thanks. I thought the title was the same in English.
The interesting thing is that very small changes can have large effects.
My first entry: http://www.translationparty.com/#1621166
Then I noticed that I misspelled polyethylene and corrected it.
http://www.translationparty.com/#1622230
I used to do this by hand, translating through multiple languages before ending up back in English. There was some other site a couple of years back that went through multiple languages for you (I think through Babelfish.)
Two slightly different punctuations of this (googled up) gave two quite different translations:
http://www.translationparty.com/#1625289
http://www.translationparty.com/#1624464
Another loop: http://www.translationparty.com/#1624829
Are there any loops that cycle through more than two translations?
Now, if I use a guinea pig
Cat, the hat comes back
(hey, this could make a great haiku generator, if only it could spew the correct number of syllables...)
Only when the syllables
the haiku of the code is correct
I have a big reason
Also: hey, I broke it!!!
my pokemons, let me show you them. let me show you my pokemons.
私pokemons 、私にはこれらを表示させる。私pokemonsお見せしましょう。
I could expect there to be a way to write "pokemons" in japanese...
Palin makes more sense!:
http://www.translationparty.com/#1627440
http://www.translationparty.com/#1628380
The phrase "Millennium hand and shrimp" BEGINS in equilibrium.
This reads like LOLHamlet:
http://www.translationparty.com/#1628188
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. -->
The score of 47-1 to China, free and fair, we were created under the guidance of our ancestors.
Wow!
I decided to quote Louis C.K.
hey, buddy! suck a bag of dicks!
=
Hey, buddy! DIKKUSUBAGGU smoke!
"There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools."
Becomes...
"Whatever the nature of my aunt."
"I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream" is weird. It gets worse, and then magically somehow regains meaning. I'm freaked out.
"where is my life?"
instantly becomes and forever remains
"My life is here?"
Interesting. "Don't tase me, bro!" instantly reaches equilibrium as "Please do not taze my friend!" Google must hand-translate popular phrases...
"one in the hand is worth two in the bush" turns into
"President Bush has lowered the value of a single". So true!
"a bird in hand is equal to two in the bush" creates some former-president hilarity
"i feel ambivalent about computer based translation systems."
=
"Our translation system is a computer-based ambivalent."
How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
----> "It is doubtful this phrase will ever reach equilibrium."
I has broken teh interwebs.
Gato,
Try removing the s; pokemons.
http://www.translationparty.com/#1636520
you can't step in the same river twice
>>
You are in the river, not a single step
http://www.translationparty.com/#1636902
@JKG,
This is my favorite variant so far:
I am president, I can handle the bird.
http://www.translationparty.com/#1638627
Kind of a fun little loop:
IN: "The restroom has been closed for three hours straight."
This causes the translator to keep adding an additional 'today' into the resulting sentence with each successive translation until it belly-flops.
OUT: "The toilet is closed today.."
I am not surprised that this phrase causes a deadlock:
"epic fail"
http://www.translationparty.com/#1638670
Is my head on fire, mate?
I fire, or 2 or 1 or 2 or 3 I'm single, I have in my head? Products?
http://www.translationparty.com/#1640394
I fed it a Firefly quote, and it took some time, but it reached equilibrium: http://www.translationparty.com/#1631154
The first sentence of My Immortal went through all twenty-five cycles without reaching equilibrium OR looping: http://www.translationparty.com/#1631772
Shinji Ikari's line "I mustn't run away!" becomes noticeably more badass: "I do not run!" A period instead of an exclamation point becomes "Please do not run." No punctuation at all is "I must not run." http://www.translationparty.com/#1636515 http://www.translationparty.com/#1636537 http://www.translationparty.com/#1640192
A good finishing line for a novel: "I now know I am please to complete many of you." http://www.translationparty.com/#1636149
for some reason, the word "marmots" breaks it. "Genius Marmot" FTW!
Can't believe this one hasn't been tried yet:
"All your base are belong to us"
-> All members of the Foundation
Which is weirdly apt...
I tried the following passage from "The Scrimshaw Butch," by Lucas Dzmura:
"I've watched this place, this "club" they used to call a bar, change over the past twenty years, too, the younger women coming in pairs, each of them wearing lipstick and spandex. It's not something I can bring myself to understand. I am a femme. Faded now, and perhaps not so fluffy over the years as some have been, but I have loved my butches since the first time I screwed up the courage to come down here."
It was too long to process at once, so I ran this sentence-by-sentence without the quotes:
"In some cases, bars and clubs, "In the future," the young woman, lipstick NIZUSUPANDEKKUSU 20 has been changed in the last run in pairs. I can not even understand myself. Education. The first part of my time here, I, I, probably, FEJINGUFUWAFUWA love butches courage failed."
How did this happen?
http://www.translationparty.com/#1640418
Eriko23@#12: "I would go out tonight but I haven't got a stitch to wear"
becomes
"Tonight, I'm going to wear the clothes!"
So much more optimistic.
I particlarly liked:
In: To be, or not to be; that is the question.
Out: This is not a problem
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
becomes
Evidence is not evidence of anything.
A sample from the PKD book, listed @22:
"The Sun Also Rises"
Becomes:
"It is"
Nice :)
http://www.translationparty.com/#1645900
My favorite so far.:
http://www.translationparty.com/#1630701
Elegantly poetic.
@LJ. Using a period instead of a semicolon sends it to an infinite loop.
Also, "Go ahead, make my day" achieves instant equilibrium.
Let's try the classics of machine-translation myths:
"Out of sight, out of mind"
...
"Tremendous, heart"
Hmm, okay. Next:
"The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak"
...
"High mental and physical weakness"
OTOH,
"The vodka is potent, but the meat is rotten"
...
"Vodka is the most powerful meat"
I learned something today... I think.
"Reality is that which continues to exists long after you cease to believe in it."
became: "In fact, I think in the long run to stop"
Prospero's "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep." becomes the lovely "Most of us are curled up to sleep with living in a dream."
Best ever:
frequent flyer
マイレージプログラム
Frequent Flyer Program
フリークエントフライヤープログラム
FURIKUENTOFURAIYAPUROGURAMU
!!!!!!!! GODZIRRAAAA !!!!!!!!!!
Tis the winter of our discontent
turns into:
Tis the winter of our discontent
Ah, quotes from famous people go so well...
Voltaire:
"It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
===>
"In this example, the innocent, good ideas, please save the danger of sin."
And Sarah Palin:
"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska."
===>
"If Putin and his country, what to do, or you can move the air in the back of the head of the U.S. or other? Alaska."
http://www.translationparty.com/#1653811
"Enter a phrase intro Translation Party and it will translate it into Japanese and back into English as many times as it takes to reach steady state."
--->
"English, in Japan, all concerned, please provide a translation of the word transformation of the country."
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
--->
"My country, the color of the contents of this letter, most of my life was a dream, she has loved his children."
Fahrenheit 451 gives awesomeness in one step:
IN: It was a pleasure to burn.
OUT: I had to write it.
The cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide, "Don't Panic" becomes...
Please do not panic.
Please please do not panic.
Please please please do not panic.
Ad infinitum.
~D. Walker
"May the Force be with you."
--->
"October 5 power, to please"
In honour of Philip K. Dick, I entered:
"So much for the translation game, I'm off to Plowman's Planet."
and I got:
"The translation of this game, I'm off my planet Plowman."
Not bad, but I'm sure we can do better.
It's a case of art imitating people with no life. Er, people with no life imitating art?
The dystopian future is yesterday's news on Boing Boing!
Fahrenheit 451 awesomeness in one step:
IN: It was a pleasure to burn.
OUT: I had to write it.
I found a well-known quotation that gets translated perfectly!
http://www.translationparty.com/#1655542
"Philip Kendrick Dick predicted that there would be days like this" became the mysterious "FIRIPPUDIKKUKENDORIKKU, this Sunday."
What? What is going to happen this Sunday? We'll have to wait and find out.
Please request me Ishmael.
"Boojum Snark Please see below!"
Uh oh! Time for me to ....
Uh-oh:
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither."
------>
"Yield values, you must obtain a temporary safety."
What do they do?
They sell merchandise. If you roll over the link at the bottom you get an on-the-fly image of a tshirt with 'your' phrase on it.
I love cops
Equilibrium found!
The version of the game in the PK Dick novel was to translate a headline or famous quotation and then have your opponent guess what the original was:
"Tiger, tiger burning bright in the forest of the night becomes."
"Tiger Woods, Tiger burning bright at night"
Even more trouble for the hapless user of the Monty Python Hungarian-to-English phrasebook: "My hovercraft is full of eels" becomes "I completely HOBAKURAFUTOUNAGI"
Still, all is not lost. "You great poof!" morphs into "It's perfect for you!" and "Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?" becomes the far more harmonious "Can you move the spirit of my life?"
Hrm... "I'm looking for some used panties" translates perfectly as does "I'm looking for an ice cream vending machine" and "I have egg on my pizza."
Strange.
"That's one small step for a man" -->
"That's one small step for man"
So that explains why Armstrong flubbed it. Though it does not explain his urge to translate the epigram into Japanese and back before saying it. I conclude the moon landing was faked.
Also,
"You can't polish a turd" -->
"You can't polish a motherfucker"
I see. Is there something I should know about Japan?
Perhaps due to the pervasive influence of Asian culture in Matt Deckard's Los Angeles, Roy Batty's last words hold up surprisingly well:
"I can not believe people are looking for. Attack ships on fire on the shoulder of Orion. Near the Tannhauser gate, in the dark, CI has a brightness of the beam. Be lost in the flood of tears. Time to die."
Where is my mind?
->
Here?
Getting Here was the fun part, though:
http://www.translationparty.com/#1662095
Don't be afraid, Neda
-loops->
Neda is not worried.
Neda not worry.
Let's get high.
->
You can get the best price.
Why, thank you for the vote of confidence, translator.
I will lose interest in this by tomorrow
->
You lose interest in it until tomorrow.
The translator thinks I'll be back, apparently.
I'll be back -> I'll be back
I am going to get drunk as fcuk tonight
->
Tonight, drunk sex
speak engrish
->
English-speaking Japanese
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
The ending on this was not the fun part..but reading how it got there was fun and kinda poignant.
"why do we carry around so much dead weight?"
Dammit Mark. I'm working on a deadline, took a quick break and now I have a new toy.
I played with some Douglas Adams quotes and this one was the best.
Original:
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
Equality: (or should we call this the "truth?")
"Time is a fantasy. Double lunch."
Good test quote!
They got Burton suits, ha, you think that's funny?
Turning rebellion into money
- The Clash
gabrielm, I tried the "usual" version
IN: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
OUT: Bush is worth, is to get the bird.
Even a computer knows Bush's value!
SaintNiddle..
This, from the middle:
"Freedom or death to the role?"
Nice!
Finally, these Dylan lyrics make sense:
Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine.
I'm on the pavement, thinking about the government.
The man in the trench coat, badge out, laid off, says he's got a bad cough, wants it paid off.
Look out kid, it's something you did.
God knows when but you're doing it again.
You better duck down the alley way, looking for a new friend.
The man in the coon skin cap, in the big pen, wants eleven dollar bills, you only got ten.
Becomes:
Johnny is a mixture of the drug underground.
I actually have is being held by the government.
The trench coat, badge, has been paid to the neck of a man coughing badly.
Look at the children?
But God knows.
And ducks are always seen as a new friend.
Large pen, 11, Male, coon skin caps, dollar bills.
Do you feel lucky, punk?
->
Do you believe in your PANKURAKKI?
Strangely, I could totally see this having the exact same meaning.
whither thou goest i will go -> wouldst thou now?
http://www.translationparty.com/#1674183
cynical bastard
I have also found an "It is doubtful this phrase will ever reach equilibrium."
http://www.translationparty.com/#1679581
Fascinating. It just keeps adding to itself.
Never. Laughed. So. Hard.
Wrote a crappy poem and translated it, line-by-line:
In:
I hope to find the source of happiness.
I have looked far and wide for it, but have failed, thus far.
Perhaps it resides in the dance of a rainbow.
Maybe it is found in the gleam of light off of the snow.
I think, when I reach the end of my journey, I will find that my travels were the source after all.
Out:
I find the source of happiness.
I think we are in front of him.
You may have a lot of dancing rainbows.
Perhaps the brilliance of the gleam of the snow.
I'm at the end of the journey, I think I find the source of the trip after all.
I find this to be a lot of fun.
"That's what She said!"
=
"I'm with your girlfriend!"
"Breath deep the gathering gloom" will never reach equilibrium. It stops at "Breathe deep and mysterious".
Wonder what other pretentious lyrics/poems read like?
"If I leave here tomorrow, will you still remember me?" -> "I still remember the morning."
Lynard Skynard was never so poetic...
Ok, so as input I put the memorable phrase uttered by one Kanye West on his blog:
I JUST WANT TO BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM.
which ended, fascinatingly, with:
I am a drug addict, I will start the medication.
As a English-speaker learning Japanese, I adore this entirely!
he said "son, when you grow up, will you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?" goes into an infinite loop. I wonder what the parameters of generating one are?
It also managed to turn "not if I can help it, you know it's unconstitutional to take away my god-given pharmaceuticals" into "And unconstitutional, and I know God is a drug"
"God is a drug" is my new favorite phrase of the day.
I asked the gentleman who created this if he was planning on making one that translated from Japanese to English and he just laughed and said that this one was going to be it.
Also,
"Soon or late the day is coming, tyrant Man shall be overthrown, and the fruitful fields of England shall be trod by beasts alone"
becomes
"In Britain, sooner or later, compensation for the human animal, the next field, this conference is the devil"
Oh, man. From Fight Club:
"I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species."
becomes
"To screw me, is to save the panda species, I felt like a shot in the first place."
Movie quotes are -fun-.
And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
God is a small light, "" like me.
Infinite loop:
I don't like what I see here
to be, or not to be, that is the question.
->
Whether this problem.
That's not very impressive, what about this...
If we shadowes haue offended, Thinke but this (and all is mended) That you haue but slumbred heere, While these Visions did appeare. And this weake and idle theame, No more yeelding but a dreame, Gentles, doe not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. And as I am an honest Pucke, If we haue vnearned lucke, Now to scape the Serpents tongue, We will make amends ere long: Else the Pucke a lyar call. So good night vnto you all. Giue me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.
->
Equilibrium reached
May haue appeare stomach shadowes vision, these Thinke (repair and all haue), slumbred heere,. Theame this weake and idle women scold, dreame, Gentles, Yeelding. If repair is possible. The next morning, Luque Pucke compensation Ming Ming: Pucke lyar, and tongue of the snake, the other is known as vnearned haue flowers. So good night vnto all. Robin Giue If you need to pay to restore a friend of mine.
That's Better
There isn't a point in trying to make sense of everything in life
------>>
This is a point to understand this life
The internet is for porn.
->
This is porn.
And now for a bunch of Bushisms:
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
->
They are our country, and to stop the damage to us, please consider a new way.
I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.
->
I can be expected to breach the levees.
If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.
->
My life, I'm the dictator, the dictator of North Korea.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.
->
Our country, family, and we detected the wings of a dream.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
->
War is peace.
Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!
->
Anywhere, they have weapons of mass destruction!
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
->
I am for peace, love can stay in the fish.
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
->
I can eat in your family is difficult.
fool me once shame on shame on you Fool me you can't get fooled again
->
Unfortunately, the old, dust behind the justice stupid fool
"Those cats were fast as lightning"
also yields and infinite loop.
Wow, weird that I heard of this site off a jp game channel on irc like a month ago.
"Go ahead, quote anything on this page"
I'm sure I've had this conversation before.
The United States defeated Japan in World War II.
->
U.S. defeated Japan in World War II.
->
Japan defeated the U.S. in World War II.
->
Japan defeated the U.S. in World War II.
Apparently, history is written not by the victors, but by the translators.
http://translationparty.com/#1714469
This is amazing.
IN: The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
OUT: The truth, please contact us.
Wow, this is really enlightening... The first page of Google's TOS turns into this:
Boing Boing. A directory of wonderful things.
BoingBoing. Amazing, please change to that directory.
@44
I've found a triple loop:
"Our results show that eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase is a multifunctional enzyme that acts at the crossroads of protein modification and protein folding."
-->
Function of the eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase enzyme proteins are the result of changes in the process of protein folding.
oligosaccharyltransferase enzyme is the result of changes in the process of protein folding in the eukaryotic protein function.
oligosaccharyltransferase enzyme is the result of the change in the protein folding process of eukaryotic protein function.
Function of the eukaryotic oligosaccharyltransferase enzyme proteins are the result of changes in the process of protein folding.
Our Father, art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. You are in heaven and on earth. And our daily bread, please specify the date. We forgive the intrusion and against us, forgive us our trespasses. Tempt us with evil leaders KARA. British power, and glory, is forever. Amen.
The Centro-matic lyric I have stuck in my head resulted in infinite loop:
"Don't you know it's your disaster now?"
Made it's little machine head hurt on my first try. Awww.
IN: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
OUT: Idols, sound and fury, full of nothing.
Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside
->
Oh, I like to be beside the sea
So... Close....
Sure, I like making bacon on the beach, who doesn't?
->
In fact, the beach and my bacon?
Instant solid state
Live long and prosper.
Song lyrics are fun.
David Bowie -->
"Man of the stars, we will look at the sky. We have to meet him, it is difficult"
Arctic Monkeys -->
"I am KEMASU赌dance floor please refer to our reasonable price"
Jimi Hendrix -->
"If you're out of here, the species is a thief, joker"
And one political quote...
"There are known knowns. They are well known. Known is known. In other words, we know that many people are ignorant. However, it is known as unknown. Also, I see him, please."
All your base are belong to us.
ends in
We belong to the base.
"How much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?"
Becomes
"If the tree is, how CHAKKUCHAKKUCHAKKUCHAKKU Thursday Thursday?"
"What? What is going to happen this Sunday? We'll have to wait and find out."
Now, wait for the last year.
Fair, given Gibson can lose people who natively read English...
http://translationparty.com/#1758614
Smiths is simplicity in any language:
http://translationparty.com/#1759131
Except when it's less simple:
I was only joking when I said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head.
Became
Seriously, in my opinion, destruction of teeth.
Equilibrium found!
That's deep, man.
Long live the New Flesh
--->
Long live the new Flesh
And, although:
You know, I hate to ask, but are "friends" electric?
devolves, the first round of translation returns the awesome:
You heard me, I hate "friends" What is electricity?
Alas, poor Buck Mulligan never reaches equilibrium.
http://www.translationparty.com/#1761140
Scary! It actually translates the full existential weight of Satan's responsibility for Hell:
farewell happy fields where joy forever dwells, hail horrors hail
--->
Crisis, aloof, isolated from the world, the joy of eternal happiness.
Beautiful!!!
i like to kill angry people....
....I have to die on the cross.
WTF?
@118
"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
->
War is peace."
I'm sure that's exactly what he meant.
Sting (of the Police) has bad breath!
"How my poor heart aches, with every breath you take"
magically becomes:
"I have bad breath or pain, or have you have all of my heart?"
Did anyone notice that the phrase then goes on zazzle and is put on a t-shirt in english and Japanese to be sold?
Is this part of zazzles site?
"Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me." becomes very interesting.
"Change we can believe in" turns into "consider whether you can change" LOL
I think the best one yet is "one in the hand is worth two in the bush"
I started with some generic classics, of which my favourite was:
Home is where the heart is
=
Hardware store
Do I detect a gender bias here? :)
Then I tried "Mind over matter"... but strangeness abounds when punctuation is added:
Mind over matter
=
This is the heart
Mind over matter.
=
Mental problem.
Mind over matter?
=
I?
It just gets more existentialist by the minute :)
"It is doubtful that this phrase will ever reach equilibrium." -> "This is necessary to achieve the balance of the phrase."
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" (supposedly the world's hardest English tongue twister) becomes:
"Six of the Patriarch, the Disease of the disease in sheep, the first six"
"I think, therefore I am." -> "I, I think so."
Brilliant.
http://www.translationparty.com/#1795625
This works wonders on Miss Teen South Carolina 2007's speech:
in:
I personally believe, that US Americans, are unable to do so, because uh, some, people out there, in our nation don't have maps. And uh ... I believe that our education like such as in South Africa, and the Iraq , everywhere like such as ...and, I believe they should uh, our education over here, in the U.S. should help the U.S.
or should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future, for us.
out:
In my map, our country, America, United States. Well .... I am, Iraq, South Africa, our education, in the morning ...Currently, the United States, South Africa, Iraq, Asia, building on the future of the U.S. bushel, must support the educational needs.
Disclaimer: I had to cheat a little bit. I split the original transcript into two hunks so it would work in the translator, and the second part never achieved equilibrium, so I just took the last one it gave me.
As she is a topic at the moment, I took Daw Aung San Suu Kyi:
"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."
->
It's fear of injury. Tragedy, to demonstrate the power, please can reduce the risk of loss of responsibility of the victim.
It nearly makes really good sense
Tried a little Eagle Eye Cherry, got this:
Come tomorrow, tomorrow I'll be gone
>>>>>
Tomorrow will be announced tomorrow
And somehow 'bite me' never reaches equilibrium.
http://www.translationparty.com/#1804193
Jon Bon Jovi is poetic.
I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, wanted, dead or alive.
->
I'm still me, the cowboy life, death and horses.
Guybrush Threepwood's insults lose something.
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
->
The beef war is necessary.
Even Abraham Lincoln becomes ominous.
that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
->
The new birth of freedom under God, this country is the government: people, these people have disappeared from the earth.
Gilligan's Island was apparently about Products Products Products Products Products....
http://www.translationparty.com/#1697413
I also put in the text from an Engrish shirt a friend of mine bought in Japan. It came out making *more* sense.
Willed himself into contentment. It is sworn here to have it in the mind strongly and swears it.
->
Make yourself happy. Here, I was forced to declare a commitment.
Am I the only one that is not getting this to work, in any browser? FF IE Opera nor Chrome?
It works wonders with self help book phrases. It gives an air of kung fu sifu wisdom to otherwise ridiculous MBA trash......
for example, from the immortal opus "Who moved my cheese" the slogan: "The Quicker You Let Go Of Old Cheese, The Sooner You Can Enjoy New Cheese"
becomes..
"Now, old cheese, you can go to enjoy new cheese"
You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talkin' to?
----->
You talkin 'to me? You talkin 'to me? You talkin 'to me? Well, other people hell 'talkin? You talkin 'to me? Well, just one. I think you talkin?
Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
Equilibrium:
I have a corner of the baby.
Snap, I think I broke it with a Burt Ward quote.
I started writing random ridiculous sentences to see what would happen. Now I want to DO something with the random ridiculous sentences. Oh dear. Anyway, this transition I like:
His anniversary gift to her was a small, peculiar statue that seemed to wander around the garden at night.
-> The night of my anniversary gift to her, to wander around the small garden is a wonderful picture.
I win:
http://www.translationparty.com/#1849315
Are we still playing with this? Well, I am at least. Here's a new one from a random quote generator.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
-Bell Hooks
Becomes:
Well, to begin, please select the free love.
the phrase 'where the truth lies' never reaches equilibrium.
Two of my favorites:
"My kids won't go to sleep"
and
"The only things sure in this life are death and taxes."
Looped on my third try with :
"I juggle cabbages with a vigorous zeal when I'm not playing piano for a living."
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. (Albert Einstein)
=
Confusion and conflict, the main purpose of the language.
Out of several attempts to get the translation through without changes, I only managed to get one cultural element through: "I love tentacle porn."
What is the answer to live the universe and everything?
http://www.translationparty.com/#1953592
leads to infinite recursion.
This seems like a great way to get over writer's block. I know my mind is popping with new ideas thanks to just what you've all posted above.
I may be too far down to get any views, but when I went to Japan in May, I found 5 awesome Engrish shirts.
1 "Comes Suddenly. It knows the limit of the possible." On a hot pink tee shirt!
2 " 'AGAIN&AGAIN' TOMORROWTIME! IT A FINEDAY, THEY LAYED FRISBEE ALL DAY LONG. THEY ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO HOLIDAY" On a white long sleeve with a photo of a little boy tossing a frisbee (which has the onomatopoeia "S'HOO" near it) to a happy dog.
3 "SONG OF SEXY LOVE. Time is moved to love." On a hot/bright yellow tee shirt.
4 "Strong Power. Time is moved to love. Waited for quietly."
and finally, the one my brother chose to have...
5 "FADDY IF IS THE GAVE" on a grass green tee. hahaha
I hope you like them!
-Chad
Wow, some Tool lyrics get seriously mangled and reduced. http://www.translationparty.com/#2033996
While searching for something to translate I found a quotation from Tom Cruise:
"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood."
Beats me how someone can say something so sensible and still be a Scientologist.
Anyway, Translation Party came up with some weird English before giving up. Here is the final one:
"I had to fight a war. You can use the gun for me. I will be killed, kills the people happy. Her adult children are here and please, please enjoy your vacation."
Oops. Why isn't there an edit function? It's Tom Hanks not Tom Cruise. So no Scientology involved, thank goodness.
The Doors lyric:
"people are strange when you're a stranger, faces look ugly when you're alone"
becomes:
"Burt is a strange case, please refer to find a stranger"
by way of:
"While, a strange stranger is only visible when you look ugly"
A while back, a guy was doing this _mechanically_.
"I After the Cloudy Doubly Beautifully"
By: Matthew Battles
Hilobrow Feb 6, 2009
(revised version of piece from Hermenaut.com from Aug 16, 2000)
http://hilobrow.com/2009/06/02/i-after-the-cloudy-doubly-beautifully/
I like when it answers itself:
With great power there must also come great responsibility.
Also, a large responsibility requires a large force.
this has cured me of my insomnia. or at least its boredom. thanks