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mimitabby
01-16-2008, 10:48 AM
take your english phrase and have it translated into 7 languages and back to English again. WHAT did you say?
Kind of illustrates how bad online translators really are....
http://tashian.com/multibabel/
haha! Love it! Sometimes that's how I think the words come from me the first time! :eek:
Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
Xrayted
01-16-2008, 11:56 AM
Huh? I didn't understand what you just said. :rolleyes::D
Andrea
01-16-2008, 12:11 PM
If you type in something about riding a bike, it works its way through being a motorcycle and then out to being horsemanship!
This was funny, too-
My bicycle is made of carbon fiber...
My bicycle is made elimination of the fiber of the coal
bmccasland
01-16-2008, 02:55 PM
Bicycle made from compressed carbon fiber....
Bicycle in instructd of the way of the smoothing fiber he coal
Blueberry
01-16-2008, 03:08 PM
Too funny! When we had some renovations done, we didn't want the non-english speaking workmen to let the cats out of the bathroom. We went back and forth on language for a sign until we had something that translated both ways. It was scary the first few iterations!!
CA
OakLeaf
01-16-2008, 03:50 PM
LOL CA! Now you have to share some of the scary phrases!
It reminds me of my parents' trip to China a few years ago. If my dad had a question of a villager, he would ask my mom in English. She would repeat the question in Mandarin to their driver, who in turn would ask the question in the village dialect. Then the answer would travel back up the line in the opposite direction. I wonder how often the answer my dad received had any relation to the question he'd asked!
VeloVT
01-16-2008, 04:31 PM
mind the gap = the material of the guata of the thrown one
:eek:
perhaps more frighteningly:
my stomach hurts = malvagita of the mine of the stomach
Please don't get sick unless you speak the language!
mimitabby
01-17-2008, 06:06 AM
the bike was sleek and new, i rode it into town...
via 7 languages:
The bicycle of the movement is structuralized has recently, I
assembled because in the cities it uniforms.
firenze11
01-17-2008, 07:22 AM
I decided to see what it would say about mullets. I have to add all the translations because they were pretty hilarious.
Business in the front, party in the back =
Business in the front one, left in the back =
Business in the front, leaves in the rear side :eek: =
Commerce in the front part, sheets in the posterior side =
Commerce in the front part, leaves in the posterior side = (Finally!)
Commerce in the front part, slight in the later face
Love it!
emily_in_nc
01-18-2008, 04:56 PM
Original English Text:
I want to ride my bicycle.
Translated back to English:
It would wish to hang inside in my bicycle.
Well, wouldn't you too? :D
~Emily
teigyr
01-23-2008, 11:18 PM
I decided to see what it would say about mullets. I have to add all the translations because they were pretty hilarious.
Business in the front, party in the back =
Business in the front one, left in the back =
Business in the front, leaves in the rear side :eek: =
Commerce in the front part, sheets in the posterior side =
Commerce in the front part, leaves in the posterior side = (Finally!)
Commerce in the front part, slight in the later face
Love it!
a woman after my own heart :D DH and I often point out mullets to each other. I used to have the mullet classifications memorized also...though I've grown weak in the past few years. Excellent subject material!
shootingstar
01-27-2008, 08:07 PM
Original English Text:
I want to ride my bicycle.
Translated back to English:
It would wish to hang inside in my bicycle.
Well, wouldn't you too? :D
~Emily
Very cute....:)
As a child, I had to translate occasionally for my mother from Chinese to English in the store. Now, a 13-yr. child is quite bored with this responsibility. A full paragraph from mother was shrunken down into 3-4 English words..quite often. The poor clerk wondered what sort of customer complaint she was going to have to cope with...
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