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FUN WITH AUTOMATIC TRANSLATORS

Posted: 2002-07-17 12:44am
by Ai Phling Pu
Those "universal translators" on ST are pretty cool... but the following example indicates there's a LOOOOOOOOONG way to go...


Nobody loves to him, not to equal its mother! If she were not for all the money that she obtains for you every month, she would throw to him in the head and would bury her ass grieved in the back patio, you piece without value of excrement!

The original text? "Nobody loves you, not even your mother! If it wasn't for all the money she gets for you every month, she'd shoot you in the head and bury your sorry ass in the backyard, you worthless piece of shit!"

Posted: 2002-07-17 01:41am
by Singular Quartet
Had fun laying with babel-fish, haven't we. I wonder what would happen if you gave it Yoda speak?

Posted: 2002-07-17 10:02am
by Iceberg
This is how the Universal Translator SHOULD work. And as an added bonus, it'll turn alien languages into REALLY weird Engrish.

Posted: 2002-07-17 10:55am
by Eleas
"This is how the Universal Translator SHOULD work. And as an added bonus, it'll turn alien languages into REALLY weird Engrish."

Data: "Captain, the cubical ship is hailing us."
Picard: "Open a channel, Mr Data."
Borg ship: "We are that one lent. Its lives, since they were, his rueber. to install more in, to maintain us to its cultures. The resistance is vain."
*puzzled silence*
Riker: "Captain, that's the biggest Ferengi ship I've ever seen."

Posted: 2002-07-17 12:55pm
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
Hehehe. That be a funny episode

Posted: 2002-07-17 04:08pm
by David
Eleas wrote:"This is how the Universal Translator SHOULD work. And as an added bonus, it'll turn alien languages into REALLY weird Engrish."

Data: "Captain, the cubical ship is hailing us."
Picard: "Open a channel, Mr Data."
Borg ship: "We are that one lent. Its lives, since they were, his rueber. to install more in, to maintain us to its cultures. The resistance is vain."
*puzzled silence*
Riker: "Captain, that's the biggest Ferengi ship I've ever seen."


We are the Microsoft. Resistence is poodle. Prepare to be Winblowed.

Posted: 2002-07-17 06:56pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
The secrete iformation was ejaculated from the car go hauled after a wrist missile was fried at the fighter. We this ad hoc.

Posted: 2002-07-18 05:12pm
by TrailerParkJawa
If you want some giggles with translations go here:

http://www.engrish.com

Posted: 2002-07-18 11:41pm
by David
I've seen that site before, it's fuuuuuuuuuunnny!

Posted: 2002-07-19 12:23am
by Kosh_The_Vorlon
::just for kicks, puts the Borg speech as he remembers it into Babelfish and translates it to Spanish and then back to English::

It went from: We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will be remade to service the Collective. Resistance is futile.

To: We are the Borg. Lower its protectors and you give its ships. We will add its biological and technological distinction ours the own one. Its culture will be remade to maintain the group. The resistance is vain.


Not terribly intimidating any more ;)

Posted: 2002-07-19 12:42am
by David
Resistence is vain? What translator are we using?

Posted: 2002-07-19 02:43am
by Singular Quartet
David wrote:Resistence is vain? What translator are we using?
He said babelfish. I here the portuguese is really bad. where is babel fish, by the way?

Posted: 2002-07-22 08:21pm
by TrailerParkJawa
I picked something I remebered from Star Wars.
I entered "Will someone get this walking carpet out of my way!"

Translated from English to Spanish, then back again results in:


The will somebody obtains this carpet that walks of my way!

I found the site here:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

Posted: 2002-07-22 11:40pm
by David
Them Spanish people just don't get it.

Posted: 2002-07-23 01:34am
by XPViking
TrailerParkJawa, I'm surrounded by "nonsense" English everyday. To be fair, I'm sure my Korean sometimes sounds like gibberish to a non-sympathetic interlocutor.

XPViking
8)

Posted: 2002-07-23 01:41am
by XPViking
Ha ha! This is fun!

Original message:

We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will be remade to service the Collective. Resistance is futile.

Translated into Korean and then back again:

We are the Borg. It lowers your shield, your boat under surrendering ten:00 bedspreads. We your biology and scientific technique distinctiveness will add in our oneself. In order to repair a commonness your culture will become dog work. The resistance is useless.





Looks like I have more work to do here!

XPViking
8)

Posted: 2003-01-12 11:56am
by Straha
Just transalated it to german, and then german to french, and then french to english:

We are that borrowed lower their described transmit and your ships. We add your biological and technological characteristic to our itself. Your culture remade, to maintain collectively that. Resistance is futile.

Posted: 2003-01-12 02:11pm
by The Dark
Using Xanadu's link to Reverso PROMT, I went from English-French and back and got this:
We are Borg. Dim your protections and deliver your boats. We shall add your biologic and technological neatness to our own. Your culture will be redone to maintain the Collective. The resistance is pointless.
Actually, the "deliver your boats" isn't too far off :wink:.

OK, here's another: English-French-German-English.
We are a credit. Lower her protection and supply her boats. We will add your biological and technological neatness to our own. Her culture will be redone to maintain the group. The constancy is insignificant.

Posted: 2003-01-12 04:24pm
by Straha
Just went down the list transalating again and again and agin. Got this:


We have and ours we she is you of millionaire of the leaf where he has them in the place that goes the c. that establishes its boat that gives its indication. We let us turn characteristic its biology and the technique we who come, lin c. becomes makes cultivation? }kollektivum{. is useful that the effort waste of the resistance. Effort waste of the resistance.

Posted: 2003-01-12 05:12pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I translated it into Italian and back, and got:
We are the Borg. It lowers your screen and it yields your ships. We will add your biological and technological characteristic our own ones. Your cultivation will be refatta in order to assist the collective. The resistance is useless.
Then, I ranslated in into French, German, and back into English, and got this:
We are let us borrow. It lowers your screen, and it returns your ships. We will add your biological and technological characteristic our clean that one. Their culture will its refatta, in order to help the Kollektivum. The resistance is unnecessary.
Seeing if I could get it even more messed up, I translated it into Spanish and back:
We are we left ourselves we borrowed. Low its screen, and returns its ships. We will add its biological and technological characteristic our clean that one. Its culture wants his refatta, to help the Kollektivum. The resistance is unnecessary.
Translating it into Portugese and back did little, so I decided to translate it into Korean and back:
We us soak are the shoes in the left which we ask. It boat of it screen and returning of low-end. We under our purity keyss L this will add in it biology and scientific technical quality. In order to help the Kollektivum it refatta wants by it culture. The resistance is unnecessary.

Posted: 2003-01-12 05:17pm
by Keevan_Colton
These are all like that
"Shaka, when the walls fell"
Business when TNG Uni Trans. broke/didnt work worth shit....

Posted: 2003-01-12 05:23pm
by Wicked Pilot
WHY DID YOU BRING BACK TO LIFE A THREAD BY THE ASU COWARD?

Posted: 2003-01-12 06:17pm
by Straha
Wicked Pilot wrote:WHY DID YOU BRING BACK TO LIFE A THREAD BY THE ASU COWARD?
Who started the thread makes no difference. IT's the content that counts.

Posted: 2003-01-12 06:58pm
by Utsanomiko
My god, it must have taken forever rumaging through the backlog to find this thing. It's been dead for over 5 months. Y'know, it would have been safe to just start a new thread.

This has got to be the wierdest thread-revival ever.

Posted: 2003-01-12 07:12pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
Let's not forget the Ultimate: ALL YOUR BASE!!!

Image
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Captain: What happen ?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Operator: We get signal.
Captain: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Captain: It's You !!
Cats: How are you gentlemen !!
Cats: All your base are belong to us.
Cats: You are on the way to destruction.
Captain: What you say !!
Cats: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Cats: HA HA HA HA ....
Captain: Take off every 'zig' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'zig'.
Captain: For great justice.