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BlahblahFish shows just how bad machine generated translation can be
You know how when you enter some French, German, or Japanese text into a web-based translator, the results always look a bit... suspect? BlahblahFish is a website that shows you what it looks like when you translate an English phrase into another language and then try to translate it back to English. The results are often baffling and occasionally downright funny.If you get a particularly funny translation, you can post it on the site where other users can vote. Not surprisingly many of the translations that have been posted so far are somewhat dirty. But I also found out that "great googly moogly" translated into Korean comes out as something like "Indirect nine moogly where is serious."
[via Neatorama]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Anthony Russo said 6:17PM on 1-02-2009
"All your base are belong to us"
The classic bad translation to a gamer.
Anthony
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JAY said 6:17PM on 1-02-2009
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JAY said 6:41PM on 1-02-2009
Hello is there anybody out there??
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Donald B.Everson said 8:48PM on 1-02-2009
klatoo verad nixtu
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datter said 8:19AM on 1-05-2009
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