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This is a cool site that translates from English into several languages back to English. It repeats it until it runs through all the languages available and the final result is in English. It's hilarious.

Give this a shot kids and post what you come up with.

http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/

Here's the one I tried (okay, I tried hundreds, but this is a funny one)

Starting sentence: Your mom makes a delicious pie.

Ending sentence: The nut/mother forms hardens of good pleasure

I think this translator knows my nut/mother. ;)
 

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original: If God reached down to take my hand, I'd try and pull him from the sky.

babelized: If the God took to traverse for the deep one, the end to make the examinación of my hand, I judged and of the sky he would lose it.
 

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Original: There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow
babelized:The young that is here in the front part probably does not have root to wait for vainly the operation utopy, tomorrow the meat and the alcohol
 

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original: I want to be published.

babelized: It would wish to be published.

And again, only this time including Chinese, Japanese and Korean:

I believed to this, we who I connected totality that I would wish in the beginning exempted.

So that's why those Hyundai manuals are so hard to understand.
 

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Original:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Translation:
It was better periods, he was to falschsten of the periods.

_________________________

Original:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Translation:
The dark night was one and stormy one; rain fell in currents -- with
thrown 0ccasional, when the violent shower of the wind was one
explosion, those to the expensive outpost of the excluded deep ways
(for him it is London, of that our lies of the scene), the assembly
freely the length of the roofs and the fine flame of the light bulbs
excite violentemente, fought.against the density.
 

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Original English Text:
man who scratch butt have stinky fingers

Translated back to English:
the man, of whom barrette stinky of the extremity rayent has

 

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Oooh, I love this site. What a wonderful way to waste time ... maybe there is a column in this. Thanks! Now, how would Tolstoy feel about this?

Original:
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Translation:
The lucky families are very similar; each favorable family is
favorable of him method hardly.
 

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I tried a few.

My sentence: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
End sentence: The player of pipeau of Peter selected oats of the transmission of the pepper.


My sentence: We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.
End sentence: We are not in the chain, to the Magiers, in the narcotic Magier the end to see the ounce.
 

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Exclusive to Office Party! The first paragraph of Chapter 3 of Common Ill Vacations Of The Company Not Very The Disease...

'Serve inoperative, of which it worries what finally he smiles for the
father of my relative guancica, if I to leave it in the first place,
is the hot easy easy tranquillity, the calm of lucentezza of the cut
of the skin. That the beginning copies, swum in the minimum fairs
under integrated circuits to the examinación done of the amount is of
the snow, those that they classify, excess under mine the model of the
cover of the dance with the decree of seghe to decide always mutual
with saegemehl to the alcohol, of which he is uniform.'

I thank you.
 

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Original English Text:
She hid in the shadows and contemplated what her next action should be. Would she run screaming from the menace, or cross her fingers in silence and hope he would pass her by?

Babelized:
One hides to the colors, of, of that, that one has negotiated after
that one, he would have with him is something comes, that is the
station of the work attemped one. To the protest of the threat or she
they are the hopes of desire for are you execute it and the calm
brings to decree to indicate it?
 

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Three, that sounded like jibber jabber to me.
 

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three seven said:
Exclusive to Office Party! The first paragraph of Chapter 3 of Common Ill Vacations Of The Company Not Very The Disease....
Three, your Amazingly Sick Adventures Novel just gets better and better.... ;)
 

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Wow, this thing is great!

I wanna rock and roll all night and party every day
I demand with the coil of rock ' n ' every night and I divide every
day to it


You shook me all night long
It beat the whole night much stay

You can't always get what you want - but if you try sometimes, you'll find you get what you need.
It receives it cannot that you demand to the times - if nevertheless
distributed, to receive it always you are you which the necessity you
have.
 

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Here's another one for you parents who get tired of repeating the same verse to your children every night:

Original:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!


Translation:
Tonhoehenschwankung, tonhoehenschwankung, little infuence the first
paper, when they are I is I am strange, of which which you he are. To
the advanced excess of the raised world lateral it has taste of him,
makes shine like diamonds in the sky Tonhoehenschwankung,
tonhoehenschwankung, little infuence the first paper, because they are
I are strange, of which which you he are!
 

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Original: When you wish upon a star, it makes no difference who you are.

Babelized: Demanded begun an enthusiastic time to arrest the first paper, you, who the cause of the difference no.
 

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Original English Text:
Sweet dreams are made of these
Who has the mind to disagree
travel the world and the seven seas
everybody's looking for something
some of them want to use you
some of them want to be used by you
some of them want to abuse you
some of them want to be abused



Babelized:
The switch of the dreams of the later one, of that the alcohol in the diversity of the opinion to give the form to the world traveled and the seven seas of everything, where it observed something inside, some to be used would appreciate that some of them of you would wish to be used, the one that would wish to use some seriously you to that a certain elasticity to the incorrect work would appreciate.
 

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First line of my novel...

Original Text:
Betrayal makes us do strange things.

Babelized Text:
The treason excites the end for darlelos to the form to the things disowned.
 

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Another excerpt...


Original English Text:
On those early summer mornings, while we were high up in the hills, the layers of fog lingered in the valleys, forming a contiguous ring around the emerald heeps--scenery straight out of a Chinese watercolor painting, drenched in sublime divinity.



Translated back to English:
These mornings of him in the beginning of the summer, when they raised us for the ascent of assemblies, had been done delay the layers to it
of the fog in lowering and they directly had around dice to the form to an adjacent cycle to heeps green -- the landscape of the corrosive sublimato for the interior of the impregnated Chinese painting of the watercolor, for the external part the Goettlichkeit.

(I did like the Chinese translation, though... almost perfect!)
 

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I wondered how it would cope with Shakespeare, so I fed it the first line of Richard III.

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York


It returned: "To take with him is the winter, that one that the lucky interior of
the summer connects the forms in this chain ours nonsatisfactory"

The strange thing is, that's exactly what it says on the instructions to the assemble-in-five-minutes furniture I bought.
 

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Original Text: After the kid climaxed, he stepped back, and pulled off the condom. He casually tossed it aside, then stepped over to one of the dumpsters to urinate. The odor of ammonia mingled with the stench of garbage as steam rose off the rivulet that flowed along the cracked asphalt toward the watcher_s boots.

Babelized: After kulminierte of kidskin, rejected and of the examinación of fêz
of condón. Some had played the prominent one in the air for the
pagination, because an end of the work with one of unloadings for
urinate then did plus the examinación. Shaken Odore of ammoniac one
with the Gestank of wastefulness, when the steam is magnified to
rivulet ulteriorly, that they sairam of the operation the long one of
the bitumen, that was shutdowns cracked in the beginning of watcher_s.




Um......
 

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maestrowork said:
Original English Text:
Sweet dreams are made of these
Who has the mind to disagree
travel the world and the seven seas
everybody's looking for something
some of them want to use you
some of them want to be used by you
some of them want to abuse you
some of them want to be abused

That second line should be: Who am I to disagree
 

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No one knows what it’s like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes


Nobody knew, if it assesses the situation that is this one behind the
eye of the team of employees is, who the color is something it_s that
the blue one to has equipped of false sad of the employees is
 

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maestrowork said:
First line of my novel...

Original Text:
Betrayal makes us do strange things.

Babelized Text:
The treason excites the end for darlelos to the form to the things disowned.

I think your new editor is perfect, Maestrowork!
 
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