[kj] Killing Language

[Phillipps Marc]

>One night we took sentences
>like "my hovercraft is full of eels" and went to =
babelfish.altavista.com
>and translated each of them to French and back like five times, then =
sent
>them to said French guy on ICQ.

Someone's taken the trouble out of this now and created Multibabel:

http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/

Throw in some KJ lyrics and see what happens ! :o)

(doesn't seem to be working too well at the moment though, probably =
this DNS
thing)


Marc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bo Krogsgaard [SMTP:t23@mother.brap.dk]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 27, 2003 1:31 PM
> To:	gathering@misera.net
> Subject:	Re: [kj] Killing Language
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> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Gabriella Wing=E5rdh wrote:
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> > (* Don=B4t know if you speak any Swedish, but let=B4s say "Twist =
and Shout"
> literally, would be something like "Skruva och skrik", which in =
English,
> translated back, could result in something like "Screw and Scream")
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> My former roommate and i have this common friend who is French but =
has
> lived in Denmark for .. fifteen years maybe. One night we took =
sentences
> like "my hovercraft is full of eels" and went to =
babelfish.altavista.com
> and translated each of them to French and back like five times, then =
sent
> them to said French guy on ICQ.
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> He really TRIED to understand what we were saying, until he figured =
out
> that my former roommate and i in the same room would mean we were =
stinking
> drunk and taking the piss out of him. Took him a while to figure out
> though. DAMNED i wish i had the logs of that night.
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> On a WHOLE different note, a few of you maybe used BBS systems back =
in the
> old days with dialup modems. There was this quite good BBS software
> package called RemoteAccess, which was also one of the first BBS =
systems
> that shipped with menus in multiple languages.
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> Whatever idiot translated it to Danish should be shot. He had =
consequently
> translated the word "thread" with the word for "threat", so it had =
the
> most violent message board system in BBS history ("previous message =
in
> threat, next threat, search for messages in threat, start new threat" =
and
> so on). And the Danish words ("tr=E5d" and "trussel") are so far from
> eachother that this cannot be a simple mistake, it's a proper fuckup.
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