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This is the results of me being very bored (at work) so I decided to have some fun with the google translator. This blog is not meant to be informative, it is not meant to be meaningful, it is simply a passing of time.
Feel free to do this on your own and post your results, seems kind of interesting.
EDIT: CAN A MOD EDIT TITLE TO: Fun with Google Translate
also move to general?
Process :
1)Take a sentence in English
2) Translate it to another language
3)Use the translation to translate it to another language
4) Repeat process
5)Translate back to english
Sentence Used : This is how we translate in America.
English to Spanish
Esta es la forma en que se traducen en los Estados Unidos.
Spanish to French
Il s'agit de la façon dont ils sont traduits aux États-Unis
French to Norwegian
Dette er hvordan de er oversatt i USA.
Norwegian to Turkish
Bu da ABD'de tercüme nasıl olduğunu.
Turkish to Dutch
Dit is hoe het wordt vertaald in de Verenigde Staten.
Dutch to Latin
Sic interpretatus est orci.
Latin to Czeck
Tak interpretovány zde.
Back to english
So interpreted here.
  
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Looks like it was altered significantly when you translated to Latin. I wonder how things would have turned out if you skipped that step.
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Yea I noticed that too, good point. Maybe next time I wont use latin.
@finesthour (below): I only used languages with english alphabet.
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Is google translator actually accurate with some languages and sentence structure? I know you cant get any grammar right with chinese or japanese.
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sentence used: Why am I doing this to myself?
English to Azerbaijani
Niyə özümə bunu edirəm?
Azerbaijani to Korean
왜 내가 직접해야하나요?
Korean to Dutch
Waarom moet ik hebben?
Dutch to Icelandic
Hvers vegna ætti ég að hafa?
Icelandic to Swahili
Kwa nini mimi kuwa?
Back to english
Why do I have?
Really not too far off as the first few words were the same. Pretty fun not gonna lie haha
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Hmmm....
I vaguely remember a pretty cool short movie where they translated stuff like this all over the place. iirc it even won some prizes. Can't find it for shit though. :/
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these are always fun, heres something similar
+ Show Spoiler +http://translationparty.com/#10088273
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I remember back in high school this guy in my international econ class didn't feel like writing his paper so he just borrowed mine and translated it from english-japanese-spanish-russian-engligh or something like that. The end result was a really Borat-sounding essay on global stock markets and I believe he got 50 or 60% on the final grade. Of course it was an easy elective class and the teacher didn't want to fail anyone, so I imagine that after trying to read the first few lines of nonsense he just gave up and wrote down a grade.
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