Friday, April 23, 2010

Bad Translator! - Funny Free Translation Tool

Sometimes it is a wonder that we can communicate at all...

Bad Translator! - Funny Free Translation Tool

3 comments:

Shelley Chernin said...

Fun toy.

I put in the Warren Zevon lyric:

The say love conquers all. You can't start it like a car. You can't stop it with a gun.

Got back:

They say that love conquers all. You cannot start the car. I cannot stop a rifle.

Shelley Chernin said...

Oops. Typo in the Zevon lyric. Should be:

They say love conquers all. You can't start it like a car. You can't stop it with a gun.

VertigoXX said...

an online comic strip i was reading recently has an odd character who speaks spanish gibberish. the author takes what he wants the character to say in english, puts in in babelfish and translates it to spanish, back to english, and then back to spanish again to make sure it is garbled up.

Cited...

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~Jean Cocteau