telophase: (Kyo - say what?)
telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2007-10-12 10:51 am

More spamming!

Lost in Translation, the service that takes text and runs it through several languages in an automated game of Telephone.

"This library never closes," which is from a bookmark advertising our website, becomes after several iterations, "They do not arrest this shelf for books in a certain situation."

"Salt-the only rock we eat-has made a glittering, often surprising contribution to the history of humankind" becomes "It knows us that the cliff had given the form him, the end to only eat tonhoehenschwankung, frequently narcotic the contribution to the history of the humanity."

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Every time I decide I want to no longer read Language Log, the linguistics blog, because it's slightly too academic for my casual reading tastes, they post something like this or this. And I may have to create a .sigfile for some account merely to be able to use "The English aren't people who strive for greatness, they're driven to it by a flaming irritation," quoted in that first link.

[identity profile] magicnoire.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
the end to only eat tonhoehenschwankung

...that doesn't sound like something I'd want to eat, personally.

[identity profile] tprjones.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. I was hoping it might help finally make sense of this song, but it's not much better:

I was born in the cross fires the hurricane
And I howled with mine mine under actually control-move,
But with its all in this moment its gas!
But its right complete. Lightning of the pin jumpin in,
Its gas! Gas! Gas!

I was raised by toothless and baertige witch,
I was actually informed with a Juste of the belt by my rear side,
But with its all in this moment its gas!
But its all line, in lightning of the pin of jumpin,
Its gas! Gas! Gas!

I was embedded, washed I upward and on left for deaths.
I fell to the lower surface with my feet and I saw that they ran.
I knitterte the brows with the krumen of a bread crust.
Ouais, I ouais ouais
Was crowned with a Juste of adjustment Rome by my heading.
But its all in this moment actually its gas!
But its all line, in lightning of the pin of jumpin,
Its gas! Gas! Gas!

Lightning of the puppet, its
Lightning of the gas puppet, its
Lightning of the gas puppet, its
Lightning of the gas puppet, its
Lightning of the gas puppet

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
But I think it added some awesome. XD

[identity profile] rachel-renee.livejournal.com 2007-10-12 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Humor is all in the mind. -> All the tendency is in the alcohol.

Not sure what to think about that one...

[identity profile] darksumomo.livejournal.com 2007-10-13 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good, a new goofyizer. I can always use one of those, especially one that automates the old process of running a post through Babelfish by hand.

BTW, thanks for the link to the language log. Linguistics was one of my favorite non-science courses when I was an undergrad.