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David T
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 21:16
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Translate a phrase from one language to another nad back. See what you get!

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going
[eng -> fr -> eng]
when to go obtains hard, the hard one obtains going

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Fishie says:
"Those who fail to prepare prepare to fail"
"Rule are for the guidance of the wise and the blind obdeniency of the fools"
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Pincho Paxton
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

Translated into Korean, and Back to English

2 things there is a value inside the bush which dawns inside the hand

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David T
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 22:07
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lol

Fishie says:
"Those who fail to prepare prepare to fail"
"Rule are for the guidance of the wise and the blind obdeniency of the fools"
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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 22:13
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Quote: "There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it."


english-russian-english

Quote: "Nothing incorrectly s was loser, it exactly zavisyat on as good you on
I will eat."


what a phrase!


"Look a bandwagon.... lets jump on it!"
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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 22:28
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Dark Basic Professional is an amazing programming language!

This is funny!
English to French...French to Spanish...Spanish to English!


The dark professional of base is a language of narcotic programming!


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BatVink
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Babel Fish is a fantastic tool for translation

Eng/Italian/Eng

The fish de Confusion is a fantastic tool for the translation

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ReD_eYe
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 22:30 Edited at: 15th Oct 2003 22:33
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haha quality!
#edit pincho's one


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David T
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 22:44
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lol all great

Fishie says:
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Preston C
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Your mama was a hamster and your father was a goat

English to Dutch Back to English

Your mummy was a hamster and your father was a ewe

Haha, your father is disgusting
It almost got it right...


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Preston C
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Sorry for double posting, heres another one:

Quote: "English:
Oh, who lives in a pineapple under the sea,

Sponge Bob Square Pants

Spanish:
Oh, que vive en una piña debajo del mar,

pantalones cuadrados de Bob
de la esponja

Back to English:
Oh, that lives in a fragmentation hand grenade

underneath the sea,
square trousers of Bob of the sponge"



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Shock
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Posted: 15th Oct 2003 23:58
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how i would love to live in a fragmentation hand grenade.


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Preston C
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 00:11 Edited at: 16th Oct 2003 00:13
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Quote: "All bow down to our rulers Rich and Lee"


English -> Spanish -> English

Quote: "All were nauseated down to our rich and lees of the rules"


English -> Dutch -> English

Quote: "All were nauseated to our realms and dregs of the rules"


English -> French -> English

Quote: "All were nauseated with our kingdoms and remainders of the rules"


heh, went from Rich and Lee to kingdoms and the remainders of the rules.

Edit:
Tried it to japanese then back to english,
Quote: "Everything our kingdoms and the remaining question of rule and could
give feeling"



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HZence
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Lol, at least we know why we call it babelfish now.

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Mattman
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 00:41 Edited at: 16th Oct 2003 00:41
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Quote: "Is your mamma getting high on fuel gas?"


English > Dutch > English

Quote: "Your was obtained momma it was high on the gas of fuel?"


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Pincho Paxton
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Robin ran up to The Penguin and punched him on the beak.


English/French French/English


The blackbird functioned until the penguin and A punched on the
nozzle.


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Ian T
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 01:36
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Google's language tools;;

English-German-French-English;;

'Windows 98 crashed on me again. When I shut it down, it will freeze directly after shutting Explorer down.'

becomes;;

'Windows 98 is broken anchor in me. If I wish to say computer science society, becomes directly after the blocking of the cooling of the investigator.'

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 03:04
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they used to have a competition on Radio1 with this...
where they'd give you the translated version and say what it was translated from and you'd then have to text in the answer which would be a song title.

made a pretty fun comp

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Wik
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Cheese is very yellow and very yummy to eat.

English->German->English

Cheese is to be eaten very yellow and much yummy.

Now remember to eat your cheese very yellow!
hee hee

btw, that sentance (english->german->english) turns out to be:

Remind now to eat itself your yellow of the cheese much!

The rock has rolled!
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Pincho Paxton
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 03:27
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Can you name this tune?

The bahbah to black ocean you is a what kind of woolen fabric?



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Ian T
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 04:38
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Obvious but funny nonetheless .

--Mouse: Famous (Avatarless) Fighting Furball

A very nice %it, indeed.
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MicroMan
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 07:12
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Quote: "
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
"


English -> Spanish -> English

Quote: "
The alcohol is arranged, but the meat is weak
"


Yay, booze! I wonder if the makers of Babelfish hit the booze. Particularly when they read what their brainchild did.

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Arrow
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 10:33 Edited at: 16th Oct 2003 10:34
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Jared didn't show up for our D&D campaign, it's the second week we've had to call it off.

English to Japanese to English

We who are campaign of our D&D namely because of that must call that the 2nd week did not show the Jared

Again English to Japanese to English

Our 2nd weeks for the without fail necessary call of the thing which does not show the Jared campaign namely difference of our D&D

Once more

The campaign our D&D of our 2nd week Jared for the failure necessary call namely difference is not shown outside thing

I could do this all week

Campaign has not been shown the thing outside our D&D of our 2nd week Jared for the failure necessary call namely difference


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Mnemonix
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Say hello to my little friend!

[en>ger>en]

legends hello to my small friend

^^ imagine al pacino(scarface) coming out with that.

Here is an interesting story for you guys to mull over,

the reason it is called babelfish is because they stole the name from a british book/tv series called hitchhikes guide to the galaxy in which there were small fish(babelfish) which if you held them to your ear you could understand any language.
Its called a babelfish because (i think) a story in the bible called the tower of babel was all to do with the creation of languages.

"We are getting aggravated"
"Yes, we are"
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Elleomea
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"Aspiring authors" --> French --> German --> "Sucking authors"

How much ham could a hamster stir, if a hamster could stir ham?
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Pincho Paxton
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You gave me an idea!

The chicken inspired the author to write about cocks.

Eng/Korean/Eng

The chicken made the rubber which regarding a cocking writes the
writer.

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Shock
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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 22:17 Edited at: 16th Oct 2003 22:19
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yeah, the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy tv series (well, all 3/4 episodes) was really really kewl, one of the best things up there with red drawf, black adder and father ted.

now you've helped me decide what im going to do tonight, i'll watch a video lol, cheers

Don't Panic!


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Posted: 16th Oct 2003 23:43 Edited at: 16th Oct 2003 23:44
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out of sight, out of mind

to Russian - back to English

invisible idiot

thats a rather old one, also the one where the university where demonstrating a new AI system that was supposed to converse "just like a human" (it`s always fatal to make grand claims about your software to someone who hasn`t used it before ) , the visiting dignitary was seated at a console and told to type in anything he liked and the computer would reply just like a human would, so he typed

time flies like an arrow

and the computer replied quick as a flash

yes!, but fruit flies like a bannana

think about it, you can see where it was coming from

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Preston C
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Quote: "out of sight, out of mind

to Russian - back to English

invisible idiot
"


Weird, I get: from the sighting, from the reason


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Shadow Robert
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lmao... invisible idiot

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Jess T
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Posted: 18th Oct 2003 16:26
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Quote: "Dont Panic"


You gotta love it...

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David T
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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 13:05 Edited at: 19th Oct 2003 13:05
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Quote: ""Aspiring authors" --> French --> German --> "Sucking authors" "



lol

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dont count your chickens before they hatch


russian

counting dont your chickens before they nasidyat



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Runny eggs taste bad, I would rather have green eggs and ham.

English to Japanese

柔ら���る��悪�状態を味�����む��緑���よ��ムを食�る。

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Be too soft, the egg tastes bad state, I on the other hand eat the egg and the ham of green.


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