Multibabel

September 7, 2003 8:57 PM

The First Rule of Multibabel Club is you do not talk about MultiBabel Club (French & back:) The first rule of the club of Multibabel is you do not speak about the club of Multibabel.
(German & back:) The first guideline the association of Multibabel is not you speaks about the association of Multibabel.
(Italian & back:) Before the guide of reference that the association of Multibabel is not you speaks about the association of Multibabel.
(Portuguese & back) Before the guide of the reference that the association of MultiBabel is not you speak on the association of MultiBabel.
(Spanish & back:) Before the guide of the reference that is not the association of MultiBabel you speak in the association of MultiBabel. (Japanese & back:) Multibabel club without having expressed, there is a first rule of Multibabel club.
(Chinese & back:) The Multibabel club has not been expressed, has the Multibabel club first rule.
(Korean & back:) The Multibabel the club under expressing is highland Anh and a Multibabel club first rule.
posted by me3dia (27 comments total)

Via the amazing Mimi Smartypants.
posted by me3dia at 8:58 PM on September 7, 2003

Before the time of the fresh connection graceful one was turned
fulfilled that was announced
posted by anastasiav at 9:17 PM on September 7, 2003

metafilter: weblog as conversation.
became
more when metafilter: The source of fotoricettore appreciates the discussion.
... and the spellchecker just suggested "notoriety" to replace "fotoricettore." perfect.
posted by whatnot at 9:19 PM on September 7, 2003

Plus I think everybody has had this idea at some point in their internet lives.
posted by Hildago at 9:20 PM on September 7, 2003

:) the original one has some pretty funny comments.
posted by carfilhiot at 9:23 PM on September 7, 2003

Damn / at the end of my URL -- the previous post didn't show up in searches (should have tried "Lost in Translation," too.) Oh well, it's fun.
posted by me3dia at 9:25 PM on September 7, 2003

Esteem the bandage my spheres!
posted by WolfDaddy at 9:29 PM on September 7, 2003

Mine to emit of the element of the rubber rubber, that one that is
scares Augustable, he is full with Aalen.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:42 PM on September 7, 2003

MetaFilter: Plus a dependency that causes those the furrow.
posted by homunculus at 9:59 PM on September 7, 2003

* Vixen that the brown express jumped in the inactive dog. (The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog)
* You he useful era? (Are you being served?)
* And that becomes a word of our calm associate fullfilled. (And now a word from our sponsor)
posted by ZachsMind at 10:02 PM on September 7, 2003

I did this one manually a while back:

At the time of the ampere, the thou Romeo of art of the wherefore of the Romeo and the Romeo if? the Thy father is refused and it refuses the Namensthy, or there is no thou, but me love and swearing with me, atrophy many Capulet how doing, is not. Is the Montague which? that the hand and the feet, is the arm and the surface other every part, it belongs to the person. Is there something in name? that, us the thing other name which is believed it shows from the candy which rises each due to possibly. So the Romeo that designation Romeo, this valuable Verkollkommnung which is maintained was, without this title owes that. The Romeo, it shows, the doff and because of the thy Namensthy it is the thee of the part which is not, acquisition entirely.

I think the ending makes it.
posted by hippugeek at 10:19 PM on September 7, 2003

I love how "Happiness runs in a circular motion," (Donovan, circa 1967) becomes "Face to work the wealth in a circular movement."
posted by Lynsey at 10:29 PM on September 7, 2003

"I feel good" becomes "I smell myself good" then becomes "I feel odore of the merchandise."
posted by gregb1007 at 10:50 PM on September 7, 2003

playing with babelfish? oh, what fun! our market research indicates that if you liked this site, you may also enjoy farting around with google and ask jeeves if he's gay, even though they don't have 3rd-party automated web apps. yet.
posted by quonsar at 11:04 PM on September 7, 2003

C'mon, nobody's put the phrase "double post" through it yet?

Double of the tree of the activator of the exit

(include Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
Not a communication of the two-station

Oh, and "Farting around with google" becomes:
Google, of that exempts the wax

Ok, I'm bored now.
posted by wendell at 11:16 PM on September 7, 2003

This game pre-dates the computers necessary to play this game.

Phillip K. Dick, author of Do Androids Dream Of Exlectic Sheep a.k.a. Blade Runner and Minority Report, among others, wrote a book called The Galactic Pot Healer in 1969.

In it he posits a world interconnected by a vast telecommunications grid--where unemployment is rampant and bored bureaucrats play "The Game" using oral translation computers to turn ordinary phrases into unrecognizable gobbledy-gook.

Here's a link to a newsgroup discussion of the game from a little while ago. Click here.
posted by hipnerd at 11:50 PM on September 7, 2003

"Brian Eno's new album, "Curiosities" is, um, interesting," becomes "New album of Brian Eno, "Curiosities" , in the winch of her and it is interested." Horny little bugger.

Well at least it translates, "I have to say, this just isn't very good." as "I must say not correctly, these very good."
posted by Blue Stone at 3:02 AM on September 8, 2003

Bottom quality

_{'Yawn", that most hated of all non-comments translated.}
posted by Dagobert at 3:59 AM on September 8, 2003

A variant of this game:
What is the longest sentence you can write that comes back through the multiple translations unchanged?
So far I have: "The red hat is in the closet."
posted by beagle at 5:30 AM on September 8, 2003

Of course, for those running Mac OS X, Babelizer has been out for over a year...

You pick a language, and a translates to/from English until the result no longer changes. Web version here.
posted by sysinfo at 5:37 AM on September 8, 2003

I forget who did this originally, but my all time favorite was translating "Springtime for Hitler" into German and back again.

The refrain comes out:

Spring for Hitler and Germany!
Germany is lucky and homosexual.
We march to a faster step,
View out, come here the collecting main running.


Babelized, it's not so funny:

The force that motivates for Hitler and Germany,
Germany is lucky and contents.
We happened to a faster point,
Volatilely who we observed the external part,
We we saw the pipe of the operation.
posted by CunningLinguist at 5:58 AM on September 8, 2003

I'm a thomcatspike fan, and now I have the secret decoder to know what he is talking about!

Sample: Then again it may make it that much easier for that, then were back to more etiquette.

Babelized: The resistance, of the way this the situation is probably simpler to the interior of the courtesy, that occurs more ahead that much with the result, with her is complete he N, of that the form he.
posted by found missing at 7:02 AM on September 8, 2003

The iMultibabel is our big army week illusions.
posted by Danf at 8:13 AM on September 8, 2003

I love you --> Master to him.
The same basic idea I suppose...
posted by woil at 8:54 AM on September 8, 2003

Some things are universally understood across all cultures. Type in 'George Bush is stupid'
posted by ALvard at 9:12 AM on September 8, 2003

... bored bureaucrats play "The Game" using oral translation computers to turn ordinary phrases into unrecognizable gobbledy-gook
Why would anyone think that they need computers to do that? They do it every day.
posted by dg at 4:55 PM on September 8, 2003

Esteem the maize and the cereal. which he commerce with these cats.
posted by tomplus2 at 9:56 PM on September 8, 2003