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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17082 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 23:28:20
July 01 2009 20:49 GMT
#1
As many lazy high schoolers know, online translation services are one of the best tools to use if lazy and bored doing homework for a foreign language class. Of course, it doesn't work perfectly. Translating things to different languages then back into English can be an amusing and entertaining experience, especially if, after trying its hardest, all it manages to spit out is poorly constructed "English" that no one would ever be able to make sense of.

Actually, it can be a pretty fun game trying to guess what originally went into the translator. And this is where the game comes in.

Generally, I'll put it through one Asian language (Thai, Chinese, etc.), one Eastern European Language (Russian, Slovak, etc.), one language with a different lettering system (Hindi, Japanese, etc.), and another miscellaneous language.

Try and guess what originally went into the translation service! Just for kicks. I'll reveal answers in a few days, or at least when a lot of people have submitted guesses. The sources I used could include speeches, selections from literature, wikipedia articles, etc. An example entry would look like:

Note: If, in the wikipedia article on, say, leopards, the result comes out as "leopards big cat the spotted like tropical", I'll replace "leopards" with "[answer]" so people don't know it immediately. Additionally, for foreign texts, I use the most common English translation.

1. Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
2. Wikipedia - Tokyo
3. Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again
etc.

Ready? Here goes!

+ Show Spoiler [Set 1] +

1. Solved by MoltkeWarding. + Show Spoiler +
Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice. Act 3 Scene 1.
Too cheap? Because Christianity, and the size of the root, and, food and food pain by how hard a feeling that Jews, as a weapon would be affected, the same patient, the improvement in the winter and summer cooling hot? If you delay, do not touch? Daegu towards us, would you not have fun? When poison us, do not want to die? Vengeance, not so? If you still have is correct, we should be doing.


2. Solved by stafu + Show Spoiler +
Wikipedia - Mona Lisa.
Women 30 - long, often described as the artist shows misleading pictures. The concept of space. Warning. Contract and beautiful forms of art Shades and new colors for the quality of life in a healthy environment, with half of the time, some of mythologizing - Cancel


3. Solved by Meta. + Show Spoiler +
Lincoln - Gettysburg Address.
Seven continents, as well as new and freedoms in the country for forty years, our family's safety.


4. Solved by MoltkeWarding. + Show Spoiler +
Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet. Prologue.
Repeat poor old nag. Where civil blood makes civil hands. Hey, two enemies of the people alive. Binary stars in your life, including the destruction of weapons misadventured. Mother and bury his father was convicted of war.


5. Answer: + Show Spoiler +
Jackson 5 - I Want You Back.
If I was not around, you always want to see your best people, if this is the audience after the second pass the exam statistics I now too late to meet the road, ah, my dear, I had the opportunity I love you, I all your heart


6. Solved by jingXD. + Show Spoiler +
Wikipedia - Wheel of Fortune (game).
The problem and the suspension of the same game to compete with the other three games (three times, the company) and. Yes, and this decision, the price of the wheel, the participants, the series (or losses) to win.


7. Answer: + Show Spoiler +
Wikipedia - Fugue.
C in, and then between the changes of justice, or described in the previous round, and various types and materials of all the votes, "the entry of the intervention, you can listen to the important event occurred (the song), and" notes ", a half tons of material used in the past and Home


8. Answer: + Show Spoiler +
Wikipedia - American Idol.
And at this point, a group of separate physical, this action is not this, in the return process, must be present. Expensive and dangerous. We must use the energy of the long-distance telephone and business travel and rest.


9. Solved by B1nary. + Show Spoiler +
Shakespeare - Hamlet. Act 3 Scene 1.
If the disease, and brain growth. Arrow, the two functions. Marine aspects of armed conflicts, The most effective? Death. sleep; And fall.


10. Solved by ydg. + Show Spoiler +
Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time.
I think I know. Oh, children, and children, give me a failure. Well, now is the right eye. Oh, now that your children see me. I would just like to kill two worlds, I would like. Do you lost your mind. Signal. Children First


Set 2:

1. Solved by defenestrate. + Show Spoiler +
Charles Dickets - A Tale of Two Cities.
If you believe in the age of suspicion of the times when the stupidity of the worst cases, the wisdom of the past, the spring season of light in front of us in another way, the winter of despair, the dark is what we all are directly related to - Until now, a short time, good or bad some of the noisiest authorities in order to receive only the highest degree in comparison to the current era of the claim.


2. Solved by Gnaix. + Show Spoiler +
Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Paul Clifford.
Like a dark waterfall, stormy night, rain, range, research, and the air flow will be done by the decay of the city by the flood of violence, scenes of us in London () except the The roof is mounted on the struggle against violent agitation in the dark Tuesday lightweight.


3. Solved by BreaK. + Show Spoiler +
Lady GaGa - Poker Face.
Texas to play in the way I do 'to continue, to Sunday hide ',' akan beat me, and my baby, but (I), foster love. To start a shovel intuition and luck, play cards, he is, I was hooked on the game.


4. Solved by TheCheej. + Show Spoiler +
Jane Austin - Pride and Prejudice.
This is a generally accepted truth, I would like my wife will be a big asset. However, you can enter the city or the feelings of the first people, has done a very good person in charge of the surrounding, family, or other fixed property rights, so a girl.


5. Solved by BreaK. + Show Spoiler +
George Orwell - Animal Farm.
This man, our real enemy. The scene forever, the man is removed from the root cause of hunger, overwork is abolished. Production is consumed in only his creatures. If he is not in the milk, the eggs will not run as quickly, the rabbit was taken can be vulnerable. However, one of the Lord is one of the animals. At least his work in the back of them, for him, please keep the rest in order to avoid starvation.


6. Solved by TheCheej. + Show Spoiler +
Winston Churchill - Speech.
I have people at home, but not participate in government: "I will provide blood, tears, sweat, and suffering and whatnot. Before we checked, we're the most annoying. We are in front of the pain and struggle for a long long way. You are what my policy is this? I can say is: This is war, sea, land, air, all the power of us, all you can be God for us: This is a darkness and leave tyranny, the battle crime was lamenting pc outside people can not be done. It is our policy. You and I, we require in order? I can answer in one word: all costs, victory, victory, winning all terror, victory very much to be done which may be difficult to win a case exists.


7. Solved by TheCheej. + Show Spoiler +
Cinderella - A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes.
Dream of the night during sleep, your heart's desire. In that dream, you lose your heartaches. I want to do that. Rainbow, if you dream of one day smile, and faith. Regardless, how, and sadness in your heart, I believe that the hopes and dreams come true.


8. Solved by Last Romantic. + Show Spoiler +
William Shakespeare - Macbeth.
Before this, please see the dagger
Handle toward my hand? So, I have a another surname clutch;
If you have not yet I will still please see me.
You have a fatal vision, sensible
Do you feel like the site? Or art thou
The mind creates a false dagger
Or go to the heat oppressed brain?
I do, please please refer to the
As I draw.


9.
As to take a very long time, the Customs Law, and that is the face of civilization, the fate of the death of the man of God, to create a reason for the accused men in society, the complex has been hell on earth So, three times the time of a single issue - human degradation, poverty, hunger, women and children's mental, a feat the night of the physical destruction - if it does not solve the long, some areas, social by asphyxia, in other words, the extension is useless to the point of view, remain on the earth from the misery and ignorance long is this book.


10. Solved by Lglow. + Show Spoiler +
Aladdin - A Whole New World.
I, sparkling, wonderful world, you can see the glow. I am now, finally, I, I, I tried, I say I am creating in my heart princess?
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B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-01 20:53:24
July 01 2009 20:53 GMT
#2
9. + Show Spoiler +
From Hamlet: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take up arms against seas of troubles. To die. To sleep.


No clue about the others T_T
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17082 Posts
July 01 2009 20:54 GMT
#3
Some are much easier than the others, if you recognize them. The first one, especially, should be very recognizable to anyone who knows where it's from just because of the structure of the punctuation.

I'll add some more. Think of this as set one :D
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Meta
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States6228 Posts
July 01 2009 20:57 GMT
#4
3. + Show Spoiler +
Is that part of the gettysburg address? The forty and the seven, as well as the word "continent" all appear in the first line
good vibes only
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-01 21:10:54
July 01 2009 21:10 GMT
#5
4. + Show Spoiler +
From ancient grudge break new mutiny,
where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife


Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
July 01 2009 21:11 GMT
#6
I had to translate a text from Italian to English to German once for a school presentation when my class visited Rome. The paper plus booze made for quite some laughter.
osmark
Profile Joined September 2008
Austria15 Posts
July 01 2009 21:13 GMT
#7
are these well known quotes from documents or pieces of literture?
if they are, at least give us some background info or clues
funniest austrian since hitler
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-01 21:21:16
July 01 2009 21:20 GMT
#8
1. + Show Spoiler +

Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections,
passions, fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons,
subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer,
as a Christian is?
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
If we are like you in the rest,
we will resemble you in that.
Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20667 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-01 21:31:24
July 01 2009 21:30 GMT
#9
Goddamnit Moltke beat me to #1.

+ Show Spoiler +
Though i'll steal the citation! Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare.
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Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20667 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-01 21:41:31
July 01 2009 21:39 GMT
#10
+ Show Spoiler +
4. Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare - this is a vague guess simply b/c of the civil blood and civil hands bit.


oh fuck this i didn't see moltke's earlier post.

I concede my Oriental inferiority.
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Itachii
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Poland12466 Posts
July 01 2009 21:40 GMT
#11
Lol i remember having some polish script which translated polish text through all available languages, then back to polish.Fucking poetry
La parole nous a été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée
MutaDoom
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1163 Posts
July 01 2009 21:43 GMT
#12
For a minute there I thought 10 would be Sisters Of Mercy lyrics, but I can't figure it out. Gg Empyrean, you stumped most of us.
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
July 01 2009 21:48 GMT
#13
I got the Romeo and Juliet one like others, but stumped on the rest. Can you give us a clue as to the breadth of sources you picked? Should we be expecting song lyrics, movie scripts, etc? Or can we keep it to books/speeches?
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
July 01 2009 21:48 GMT
#14
#2 really sounds like a personal.
Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
July 01 2009 21:51 GMT
#15
6 might have something to do with Starcraft?
Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
July 01 2009 21:52 GMT
#16
7 made me think of Wikipedia - Radio or Wikipedia - Phonograph but those don't seem to match.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24805 Posts
July 01 2009 21:59 GMT
#17
I entered into google translate "This thread sucks." and then cycled through about eight languages and ended up with "Debate on this topic."
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
B1nary
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada1267 Posts
July 01 2009 22:04 GMT
#18
Could #2 possibly be from a dating ad?
MasterOfChaos
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Germany2896 Posts
July 01 2009 22:07 GMT
#19
7 could be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_major
LiquipediaOne eye to kill. Two eyes to live.
Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17082 Posts
July 01 2009 22:12 GMT
#20
2. Wikipedia entry on something famous.
5. Lyrics. Currently relevant.
6. Wikipedia entry on an American TV show.
7. Wikipedia entry on something musical.
8. Wikipedia entry on a phrase.
10. Lyrics.
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