Put a text on machine translator for some other language and then turn it back to this language. Comedy ensues - sometimes
Posted by kiteret@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 8 comments
Cycle a text via some other language and see what happens.
yeyjordan@reddit
Basically what the site TranslationParty dot com does, using English and Japanese, going back and forth until "equilibrium." The results used to be funnier with early 2000s translation sites; they're getting good nowadays at preserving meaning.
BeautifulAdeptness88@reddit
What do you mean?
sillybilly8102@reddit
I used to have fun with this as a kid. Just put something into google translate, see what it translates to in a different language, then take that and translate it back to English. You can just click the “switch” arrow button at the top. Do it a few times, with something complicated, and it can get funny. Here’s a not-so-interesting example.
Some changes (Mark to Mari?!) but not too interesting because I didn’t start with something complicated. Here’s another example. Now I won’t just switch between English and Spanish but will mix up the languages.
Well… I guess google translate has improved and this isn’t as fun anymore :/
ThatSmokyBeat@reddit
Is that what happened with this post's title?
qazesxedcrfvtgbyhnuj@reddit
They did this pre internet. It’s called the Bible. Who knows what we lost/gained in translation.
britishmetric144@reddit
Or better yet, do it in a series of languages.
For instance, try translating something English —> French —> Spanish —> Italian —> German —> Dutch —> English.
The result you get back will be different than what you put in, often in a funny way.
veLiyoor_paappaan@reddit
Machine translates English-Russian.
American scientists fed into it "Out of sight, out of mind".
Machine spits out something in Russian.
Sine tgeh Americans did not speak Russian, they fed its own output bewck into it to translate back into English.
The machine spat out "Blind idiot"
Cheers
Robot_Graffiti@reddit
"The flesh is willing, but the spirit is weak" => => "The meat is good but the vodka is off"