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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 03/13/2010 : 22:35:16
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Here's a fun way to waste time and see some funny distortions of intended meaning.
This online program takes your input of an English phrase, translates that into Japanese, and then back again. It continues until the program decides the last English translation has reached "equilibrium" -- or has failed to do so. If it becomes stable, you get a final English version at the end. But it often reaches no "equilibrium," and tells you so. You get to see all the stages the phrase has gone through.
I tried, "Measure twice, cut once." That reached no equilibrium, instead going into a loop. Neither did the quote from the DI's Evolution News and Views, “The misreporting of the evolution issue is one key reason for this site.” (That one became even more bizarre than the Disco original.) When I tried, "The proof is in the puddling," the phrase did eventually achieve equilibrium as "Certificate of pudding."
"Out of sight, out of mind" settles down as "Center has a vision." (An old joke has it coming back as "invisible idiot.")
Hat tip to Greg Laden.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26024 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 22:56:14 [Permalink]
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"Why not question something for a change?" achieves equilibrium at "Why you change issues?"
"Never let it be said that I did more than the least I could do" achieves equilibrium at "No more than you, if I do not need it, this worry, at least."
"Opinions are assertions of fact" reaches equilibrium at "This is the opinion of the facts asserted," with a strange admonition at the bottom: "Shame on you, by the way." Go figure that one.
"Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable, but certainty makes you ridiculous" reaches equilibrium at "This can increase the uncertainty can be really bad," noting "That didn't even make that much sense in English."
"A republican is a democrat who has been mugged" reaches equilibrium at "People's Democratic Republic, many people hit."
My wife, who is learning Japanese, is going to either love this or hate it. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 23:11:15 [Permalink]
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George Carlin's "Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
. . . becomes . . .
"Frisbeetarianism belief, when, Muboru, has written to revive the dead on the roof of your soul."
Carlin's "I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood."
. . . gives up after becoming . . .
"Several groups of two to one 2 2 2 2, Members: 1 day 1 / 59 #26102;#35760;[Japanese symbols]: Participants in one of the first one needs one customer per person per night per room is divided into species 3,111,111,111,111."
Too much math for me. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/13/2010 23:17:33 |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/13/2010 : 23:22:42 [Permalink]
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My gag, "How is the Catholic Church different from the GOP? The Catholic Church is a bunch of gay guys who repress homosexuals. With the GOP, it's the other way around."
. . . achieves equilibrium with . . .
"What is different from what the Catholic church, the Republican? The Catholic Church is to prevent a group of gay gay. Republicans are avoided by other means." |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26024 Posts |
Posted - 03/14/2010 : 08:21:14 [Permalink]
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| "Everyone just blames each other" reaches equilibrium at "Everybody blamed each other," essentially the same meaning. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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