FUN WITH AUTOMATIC TRANSLATORS

Ai Phling Pu · Post by **Ai Phling Pu** » 2002-07-17 12:44am

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!"

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2002-07-17 01:41am

Had fun laying with babel-fish, haven't we. I wonder what would happen if you gave it Yoda speak?

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2002-07-17 10:02am

This is how the Universal Translator SHOULD work. And as an added bonus, it'll turn alien languages into REALLY weird Engrish.

Eleas · Post by **Eleas** » 2002-07-17 10:55am

"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."

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2002-07-17 12:55pm

Hehehe. That be a funny episode

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-17 04:08pm

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.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-07-17 06:56pm

The secrete iformation was ejaculated from the car go hauled after a wrist missile was fried at the fighter. We this ad hoc.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-07-18 05:12pm

If you want some giggles with translations go here:

http://www.engrish.com

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-18 11:41pm

I've seen that site before, it's fuuuuuuuuuunnny!

Kosh_The_Vorlon · Post by **Kosh_The_Vorlon** » 2002-07-19 12:23am

::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

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-19 12:42am

Resistence is vain? What translator are we using?

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2002-07-19 02:43am

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?

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2002-07-22 08:21pm

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

David · Post by **David** » 2002-07-22 11:40pm

Them Spanish people just don't get it.

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2002-07-23 01:34am

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

XPViking · Post by **XPViking** » 2002-07-23 01:41am

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

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-01-12 11:56am

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.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-01-12 02:11pm

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

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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.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-01-12 04:24pm

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.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-01-12 05:12pm

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.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-01-12 05:17pm

These are all like that
"Shaka, when the walls fell"
Business when TNG Uni Trans. broke/didnt work worth shit....

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-01-12 05:23pm

WHY DID YOU BRING BACK TO LIFE A THREAD BY THE ASU COWARD?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2003-01-12 06:17pm

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.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-01-12 06:58pm

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.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-01-12 07:12pm

Let's not forget the Ultimate: ALL YOUR BASE!!!

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.