A translation of Archaea and Outlier

[outlier]

Babelfish makes life worth living, no doubt.

I rest and should repent. Or maybe it's the other way around.

L8,

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[SoCalCoug]

So, I decided to try to translate grapevine into something intelligible. I took my personal favorite grapevine post:

Most of the things people give to di and other thrift stores are usually junk. At least their junk things they have no need for. Its rarely much of a sacrifice and people are rewarded with more room in their garage. Their are three things i never will buy at a thrift store. Elecctric razors. Have in the past hurt my skin never again. Underwear of course and automobiles. People have donated cars to the di before. Most not all but most people that work at those places have a hard time getting jobs anywhere else and get trained on how to while there. i will buy videos furniture and some clothes and with reservations some electronic equipment but electric razors underwear and automobiles I would never buy at a thrift store.

and ran it through Babelfish. I went from English to Dutch to Greek, then back to French, to Portuguese, and then back to English again. It seemed to have a little bit of a German sense to it, so I ran it through a German translation, and again back to English.

So, here is what I came up with:

The majority of the worlds of the thing gives other one from the Di and zuinigheidsopslag is habitually the group. At least the things of its group are not mentioned ayto ' are a necessity. For rare any many of a victim and the worlds it is recompenced also plus an area in its garage. Ayto ' is is three things, which I not never buy to zuinigheidsopslag. They scheermessen Elecctric. In the past never still it did not wound my skin. The natural clothes and the automobiles. The worlds had offered, before the Diautomobile plus all however the majority of the worlds, which to the these climb work, the hard time that it is clean and is in no part noutro place, which is formed there as during that furniture the magnétoscope and the certain clothes and with the reserves, which have electrically electrónico the equipment however to buy and the automobiles scheermessenondergoed, which would not never buy to zuinigheidsopslag.

So, the question is: Is grapvine more understandable in the original form or in the translated form?

[SoCalCoug]

It's funny how things that seemed very clever at 11:45 at night aren't so clever the next day. :roll:

[SteelBlue]

Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

It's funny how things that seemed very clever at 11:45 at night aren't so clever the next day. :roll:

I thought it was funny.

[ewth8tr]

Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

It's funny how things that seemed very clever at 11:45 at night aren't so clever the next day. :roll:

lol, here is a cool site called lost in translation that uses google to translate something from English to German, then to French and then back to German then back to English again. The first thing I did was throw some grapevine posts into it :lol:

http://douweosinga.com/projects/poetryintranslation