Translation Party


Translation Party is where you can type in an English phrase and have it translated into Japanese and back again, several times until it gets as funny as it can be. I tried "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" and you can see what the final result was. Link -via the Presurfer

My name is Tim. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make any noise? I am a teacher who likes to drive a scooter.
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"How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

If the timber wood lumber and timber? ?

"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

? Wood and timber wood timber?

Awesome.
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Oscar Wilde's "there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about," becomes "Burt, I said world."

Dickens' "‘Tis a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known," becomes "'So far, I still Tis, I left all good."
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Why a foreign language? English is bad enough.

When I was in the states, many years ago, with my German girlfriend, yanqusan's would say something obscure to us and my girlfriend would say 'you speak English, what did they say?'. Quite often my answer would be 'I don't know, I don't speak THAT English'.

A couple of times, I would say something and peeps would ask her 'what did he say?'. Having learnt 'Oxford English, she had great pleasure in translating from Australian.

Note:
1: I speak Strine
2: I have no idea what Oxford English is but she was taught it.
3: we spent a lot of time in the back blocks ie Alabam, Louisiana etc (and had a grouse time).
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Oooh, even better,
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" becomes
"This person is a small step in the giant leap for mankind"

A possible improvement over the original, I feel.
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"Purpose is but a slave to memory, of violent birth, and poor validity." ----------

"The purpose of the law of violence is an effective memory of the birth of a slave."
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http://translationparty.com/tp/#315918

Interesting, The famous Ceasar quote about men lend me your ears turned into "In Rome, You can listen to country friends."
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"One is the hand is worth two in the bush" is hilarious. It comes out to: "President Bush has lowered the value of a single"

http://translationparty.com/tp/#317570

This is great fun.
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There is nothing to fear, but fear itself. -> I worry, I worry.

Unfortunately, you can't always come to equilibrium.

One mans meat is another mans poison -> infinity....

They need a relation that is well founded... Perhaps looking at the homeomorphic embedding rather than repetition.
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Some "translations":

(beep) has invited you to become friends on YouTube. Becoming friends makes it easier to keep track of what your friends are favoriting, uploading, or rating, and makes it easier to share public or private videos.

And friends, YouTube's SuperPiper12 have been invited. Easy, friends, friends and favoriting movie reviews, the upload and sharing of public and private trucks.

It is doubtful that this phrase will ever reach equilibrium.

Try again with result...

And friends, YouTube's SuperPiper12 have been invited. Easy, friend, friends, upload, share movie reviews, public and private trucks are favoriting.

LOL!
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"Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos." becomes

"Please politicians: They will be shipped Yoyoyoyoyoyo Yoyoyoyoyoyoaru Yoyoyoyoyoyo Yoyoyoyoyoyo Yoza."

This could make the start of a pretty good song, actually.
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If purple pieces of chocolate could fly, where would we be?

If you are part purple chocolate, where we will be able to fly?

Case, what can chocolate purple flying is part?

If you are flying purple or chocolate which is part of what?
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If you, or that are part purple or chocolate flying?

If you are, what portion of chocolate or purple or flight?

If you are part of what chocolate or purple or flight?

If you are part of your flight or purple or chocolate?

What part of your flight or purple or chocolate?

Your flight or purple or chocolate, which part?

Your flight or purple, or any portion of chocolate?

Your flight or purple, any portion of chocolate?
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3 Japan, two books, one of two English and one or two words in one 1,111,111,111,111 two interesting one 1-inch

I translated the introductory sentence
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This is hysterical - will add it to our FB page for Up Your Bottom! (another Japanese inspired blog).
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Whatever language i am talking, i am talking to you, but not him, because my language talks to him that talks to you
Becomes
My interaction with him, he can speak the language used to give me your language

Are you serious?
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