Re: Just Found a Website That's Priceless

David Peterson wrote:
>Oddly enough, it came from the Esperanto list I didn't know I was still on:
>
>http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
>
>It translates English into various foreign languages and then back into
>English via online translators, resulting in gibberish.   It's like an
>immediate relay.   Absolutely hilarious.   I did something very simple,
>"Who
>do you love?", and it came out as "Who appreciates".   Longer sentences are
>even funnier (e.g., the example they list: "I'm a little teapot short and
>stout" becomes "They are a small POTENTIOMETER, short circuits and a beer
>of
>malzes of the tea.")
This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "strange attractor" ...

The reasonably insensible sentence "I am a destroyer of worlds" for some
reason devolves into "They are with the destroyer of worlds", which's
stable. And "I love you" becomes "Master to him" after one turn in the thing
- apparently Spanish _amo_ gets translated as "master".

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" does not become "The vodka is
good but the meat is rotten" (which it supposedly becomes by translating
back and forth 'tween English and Russian), but "The alcohol becomes
ausgebritten, but the meat is weak person" after on iteration. A few more
iterations give "Ragia of the water becomes ausgebritten, but the meat is
not plus a person, who is weak person of the person".

"Treat others the way you would want to be treated" becomes "Saldamente of
the other direction, that one that you wanted that businesses outside" after
just one iteration, which may reveal the central difficulty of missionary
work. Next iteration is "Saldamente of the other direction, this one, the
one that you have augured to company to the external part" ...

                                           Andreas

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