OK, I enjoyed last Friday’s game so much, that I decided to do it again. This time, however, we’ll limit ourselves to a limited pool of possible answers. Every answer will be a passage from the Bible.

Lost in Translation combines the old game of Telephone (or Chinese Whispers, as some call it) with modern machine translations. As the site asks, “What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth among five different languages?” Well, the results are often humorous.

I’ll run a few passages through the babelizer. See if you can guess the original:
(1) But, if, the HORSEMAN when serir with you you seem undesired chosen equipment then for this day that you are useful, if of i, that its ancestor beyond the servissero of the river I or Amorites, where the track alive you. But the one that interests to me and becomes for my family, he we used the HORSEMAN.
(2) Where I can go of its alcohol? Where I can conserve its presence?
(3) For him it is of the beauty, of which, of the one of faith and they are present these works trapunta, of them of God with the work that does not support to him, not to be able to praise nobody.
(4) What era, you continued being, what era, the fact is made again; the sun is not nothing of the currency of a cent nine.
(5) Plus a man it does not inform to its neighbor, or a man his Know of the brother for example the horseman, parce that me everything knows, Aid of them with major.

Have fun!

It’s been a favorite site of mine for some time, maybe because I do a lot of translating. I thought I had mentioned it here before, but can’t seem to find it. If this is the second time I’m sharing this, well… forgive me, I’m getting old.

Lost in Translation combines the old game of Telephone (or Chinese Whispers, as some call it) with modern machine translations. As the site asks, “What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth among five different languages?” Well, the results are often humorous.

I’ll run a few sayings through the babelizer. See if you can guess the original:

1. If somebody goes the lady, we correspond to them. If they give return, they were always with you. Don’t, never was they.
2. It’s more simply the end to gain the decree that had shutdowns of the resources.
3. The definition of the Verrücktheit returns to the same thing many and many signals and examines the diverse results
4. Sufficiently in an extension of often – of me to a handspike and an end of the pressure, where the place for movements and me the world
5. We are not something therefore of the screen of the light bulb like, than they do not see

As I work with translating on a regular basis, sites like this help to keep me humble.