Garfield, Translated From English to Chinese and Back

1. Enix
   July 31st, 2008 at 3:14 pm

   They did this with Star Wars Episode III subtitles a while ago and the result was equally hilarious.

   http://antibody-software.com/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=vie w&id=18

2. groksocket
   July 31st, 2008 at 3:17 pm

   With a little mental gymnastics, you can still read these pretty consistently. The one you picked out was by far the trickiest, but he’s saying he wants a tattoo to prove his manliness, right?

3. stacyj
   July 31st, 2008 at 10:26 pm

   Funny stuff, I only wish the author had posted the original English version beneath the ‘translated’ one so we could compare …

4. Chantry
   July 31st, 2008 at 11:00 pm

   Fun fact: When I was working on an old French project, we had to translate songs, so I chose “I Feel Fine” by the Beatles… “She’s in love with me and I feel fine” translated into French and then back into English on Babel Fish turned into “It is in the love with me and I smell myself very well.” Probably not the sentiment that the Fab Four were aiming for.

5. LH
   August 1st, 2008 at 2:20 pm

   What´s his point? Translators suck and we all know it.

6. sana
   August 4th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

   Actually there is an existing site that does all of that for you: http://www.blahblahfish.com/

   You enter some English text, pick a language and click the Fish button. It will translate your text into the language you picked and back again into English.

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