2 more Av charas:

Derez (2-3 translation) --> Wicket (further down) -- > Gate (further down) --> Door (futher down) --> Port

Gavin --> Gavin

Short one- "Once Upon a time, in a Kingdom far, far, away" (54 later becomes) "Rahman, England."

Yep. But the one I really wanted to share is this one:
"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads"
...54 translations later we get:
"Suitable for all ages, from house to wait for a nervous, strong, i, Literature, my book group is empty."

((Along the way we get Good writing, of any age is always the result of neurosis someone and we want a strong deaf literature, where all the books that came along with a group of empty warheads and ...have a strong Deaf literature, all the books, together with a group of empty heads and Good knowledge of all age groups, because of neurosis, we expect a strong deaf, Literature, my book is all empty, as a group))

I get a kick out of 'warheads'

I used a quote from sherlock holmes:
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

This is what I got after 54 translations:

"Also, I think it will be deleted."

Sentence="There is no such thing as a bad cheesecake... Unless it is expired."
Translated="Nothing wrong with cheese ... If you're not gone." LOL!

Sentence="Even if that happens, I'll always love you."
Translated=
"Even so, I'll always." OMG I am having too much fun with this!

Sentence=
"This translator is a fail."
Translated=
"This is a translation"
OMG it's in denial!

LOL this is fun!

"A little of what you fancy does you good" --> "Most appropriate for your little love" (10) --> "Best of Love photos" (25) --> "Image" (54).


"Untold Reveries" --> "Unprecedented number of dreams" (10) --> "Nightmare" (54). O_O You've got to be kidding me! XD It's almost exactly the opposite!


"A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his client" --> "Attorneys, parties rage" (10). yeah right XD --> "Help bad" (54). So true lol


"Aveyond rocks" --> "Renal failure"(25)

did this one. (was too long at first so had to cut it down.)

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and got


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put that back into it and got

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did that agian

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and then.

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(ok, I'm just gonna start pasting them in now...)

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... it seems to get that right at least...


also tried mashed potatoes
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was what I got out of it.
and somewhere in the middle, there was Quote: and Quote:

Here are some things I put in:

1."Pie is so awesome!"
After 10 = "Pita is so great!"
After 25 = "Pies are great!"
After 54 = "Big feet!" (Where the heck did that come from?)

2."There is nobody better than a demon"
After 10 = "No one more than the devil"
After 25 = "Satan"
After 54 = "Deposit" (Whut?)

3. "Surfing in the air is so awesome!"
After 10 = "Search medon very cool!"
After 25 = "Medora looks good!"
After 54 = "Fedora delicious!" (Whu . . .)

4. "I like feeding pigs slop in the morning."
After 10 = "I want to be used in pigs."
After 25 = "I want to use pigs."
After 54 = "I used pork." (Weird)

Yeah, this is so fun but now I totally need a break from it.

I'd be interested to see what would happen if you gave a bunch of real life translators such a phrase (and each one only knows the previous one's translation)

and see what they come up with after 54... chances are, probably sth similar to the weirdness from the automated translators.

I did this one just now.

"Pouring soup to tiny rocks is so rude."
After 10 = "Soup in small stones and rough."
After 25 = "Small stones and cooking."
After 54 = "Rock and fire." (What in the world does that mean?)

"All we ever say is blah blah blah. And we feel safe with blah blah blah."
54 later:
"We are one of the words, etc. We believe that safety."

It sounds somewhat intelligent after the translation.

This one isn't Aveyond related, but it is a classic error in tranlasting english/japanese.

"All Your Base Are Belong to Us."

Just to show how bad something can get.

This is cute, although of course the fact that they translate to Croatian, Chinese, etc is what helps make every translation turns out so terrible. For languages that are somewhat more closely related to our own (usually the first couple in the list) the translation tends to remain fairly accurate.

I tried it with "hello".

At Belarussian they translated it to "greeting", which remained the same until, of course, Chinese, which translated it as "meet". At Galician it became "search", which is what it remained for the rest of the 50 times.

The Belarussian one is a reasonable mis-translation based on what I know of Russian. (and if you translated a letter and hello! became greeting! I think you can still get the general idea)
But based on how the chinese (or japanese, for that matter, but I think chinese might be an aggravated case) alphabet works, it should be obvious it would be skewed.

...on the other hand, translating large blocks of text from arabic to english, just once, still leaves you with large indecipherable patches and then various paragraphs you get the general sense from. So. Yeah. Machine translation sucks.


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@wolfie: No, it would definitely change, but if they were given sentences (not just a word) then human translators would at least make sure it makes sense in context. For idioms that don't make sense out of their native tongue, of course...

They would make sense in context, and it would be kinda hard to get sth like...

"all your base belong to us" gets translated to "A."

but a lot of translated phrases (esp when the languages' associated/originating countries are a large distance away) don't fully make sense after being translated without extra context that isn't within the sentence.
(point of reference, chocktaw and navajo code talkers in WWI and WWII referring to army battalions as grains of corn because the language doesn't contain such complex military terms.)

Okay guys... Stop trying to analyze why and how the words' original meanings got lost in translation. It ruins the fun.

but then it's gonna get moved to spam haven and be dropped to page 3 and never seen again and the fun won't be there at all. =(


translator:
But through the ports and in places where I do not think it is spam, so = (.

LOLwut. You do have a point there.

Translated:
"Lolvut gone right."

i put "help me with my homework" and it turned into "we need you help". that's just lame.


"the sky is falling down" turned into "October sky"

and "eat" turned into "there is" which turned into "there" which suddenly turned into "name". i just dont get it.

"Okay guys... Stop trying to analyze why and how the words' original meanings got lost in translation. It ruins the fun."


Disagree. I think it increases it for the lulz =D

The best XDXD
Original text:

Original text:

"once upon a time there lived a king and queen"
after 56 translations later we get:

"King and Queen in 1979." XDXD Once upon a time=1979