Fun with babel fish

[JVS]

See what nice phrases you can come up with. Anyone who actually knows the language can tell us if it has worked.

I'll start

Je vomis la merde de chien

[JVS]

1. Here is the link BTW

http://world.altavista.com/tr

[Eye and Monkey]

2. well, it works going into French, but comin' back it sounds like Chimpie

"I vomits shit of dog".

[JVS]

4. I typed in "I vomit dog shit" so that is accurate enough

[Eye and Monkey]

5. I know what you typed - that's why I went backwards -

It's off on some cumbersome syntax-sorta-things, but it's a good translator.

[FDRrocks]

7. Yea but you don't really say "Dog Shit" in French...

I'm a first year student, but the language seems to work the way it was transleted.

You don't say "Brian's house", you say "the house of Brian."

[Eye and Monkey]

8. that's my point - it more-or-less translates words, not phrases

So sometimes the syntax-whatever is off.

[FDRrocks]

9. What I think it is doing....

Well, in French "dog shit" wouldn't really be correct grammer. But in English, both "dog shit" and "shit of the dog" would work. I think applies a strict translation when it goes into French, and then applies the literal translation when it goes back to English.

That would at least make sense, I'm sure they have been and are constantly tweaking the translation software.

[Eye and Monkey]

11. try the same phrase in passe' compose'

it gets hung up translating "J'ai"...

[FDRrocks]

12. Haha

Then that's just idiotic.... a language "translator" that can't conjugate verbs.

The court of my mind sides with you. Case closed. :)

[Eye and Monkey]

14. well, thanks, but babelfish is okay - just stuck on words, not phrases

or groups of words. Maybe it's the spaces between or something.

[FDRrocks]

15. It's okay for now...

It seems to me that if companies like Alta-Vista would invest time and money... we would have spot on translations by now, with unrecognized slang accurately quoted.

We have the technology, we can conjugate the verbs and rid ourselves of the prepositional tyranny!

[Eye and Monkey]

16. Conjugation? isn't that illegal in several states?

[FDRrocks]

17. Yes

The use of the English language gets worse every year in this country.

Man, that was funny.... NOT. My wit is off tonite.

[Eye and Monkey]

18. nah, I just use old stale jokes as often as not

:toast:

[HEyHEY]

3. Tried em last night - no norwefi=gian!

That's norwegian to sober people

[Philostopher]

10. I betcha if you go down the list on this page

you can find one that'll do Norwegian. Or even norwefi=gian:

http://translation.langenberg.com/

[Swamp Rat]

6. Porque está comendo o cocô do cachorro?

Eka cara! :puke:

[Eye and Monkey]

13. going to English it hangs up on coco...

weryat, Rat?:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

19. Alright brah!

Wayat Eye?:hi:

edit: I asked him in Brazilian Portuguese why he was eating dog shit (in the first place).

[RPM]

20. I got it...

"this is the fish of my brother Raoul?"