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Lost in Translation

I searched today for information on the upcoming movie "Lost in Translation" featuring Bill Murray, and the first site that popped up on google was this. Everyone knows about the Systran translation software that makes their French/Spanish homework so easy, but they also know how fucking unreliable it is. The site describes itself as follows:

What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth between 5 different languages? The authors of the Systran translation software probably never intended this application of their program. As of July 2003, translation software is almost good enough to turn grammatically correct, slang-free text from one language into grammatically incorrect, barely readable approximations in another. But the software is not equipped for 10 consecutive translations of the same piece of text. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of "Telephone"? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained.

After playing around with it for a while, I finally came up with my favorite bastardization:

Original English Text:
Fuck You Cracka

Translated to French:
Va te faire foutre Cracka

Translated back to English:
Get stuffed Cracka

Translated to German:
Erhalten Sie angefülltes Cracka

Translated back to English:
Receive filled Cracka

Translated to Italian:
Ricevi Cracka riempito

Translated back to English:
You receive filled up Cracka

Translated to Portuguese:
Você recebe Cracka acima enchido

Translated back to English:
You receive Cracka above fulled

Translated to Spanish:
Usted recibe Cracka arriba fulled

Translated back to English:
You receive Cracka above fulled

Thats right folks. You receive Cracka above fulled!

Posted by Nostradamus at August 24, 2003 06:15 PM