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megamanenm

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The concept is simple, take a sentence, translate it with a machine translator, and then translate it back. Do this a couple of times and tell us what you've gotten. A nice site that does this all in one go is http://tashian.com/multibabel/ So tell us what has been lost (or gained?) in translation!
 

The Anhk24

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Dec 11, 2009
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Well mine went from I will your cookies to i will eat your biscuits, back to i will eat your cookies, then ended up at I will eat his biscuits
 

TheSentinel

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Original English Text:
All Your Base Are Belong To Us

Translated to French:
Toute votre base sont appartiennent à nous

Translated back to English:
All your base are belong to us

Translated to German:
Ihre ganze Basis sind gehören uns

Translated back to English:
Their whole base are belong to us

Translated to Italian:
La loro intera base è appartiene a noi

Translated back to English:
Their entire base is belongs to we

Translated to Portuguese:
Sua base inteira é pertence-nos

Translated back to English:
Its entire base is belongs we

Translated to Spanish:
Su base entera es pertenece nosotros

Translated back to English:
Its whole base is belongs we
 

fanklok

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Jul 17, 2009
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Original English Text:
The concept is simple, take a sentence, translate it with a machine translator, and then translate it back.

Translated to Japanese:
概念は簡単、文を取り、機械トランスレーターによって変換し、そして次に変換する。

Translated back to English:
Concept simplicity, you take the statement, you convert with the machine translator, and convert next.

Translated to Chinese:
概念简单,您采取语句,您转换与设备译码器,并且其次转换。

Translated back to English:
The concept is simple, you adopt the statement, you convert and device decoder, and next conversion.

Translated to French:
Le concept est simple, vous adoptez le rapport, vous convertissent et le décodeur de dispositif, et la prochaine conversion.

Translated back to English:
The concept is simple, you adopt the report, convert you and the decoder of device, and next conversion.

Translated to German:
Das Konzept ist, Sie annehmen den Bericht, konvertieren Sie und den Decoder der Einheit und folgende Konvertierung einfach.

Translated back to English:
The concept is, you assumes the report, converts you and the decoder of the unit and the following conversion simply.

Translated to Italian:
Il concetto è, voi presuppone il rapporto, converte voi ed il decodificatore dell'unità e di seguente conversione semplicemente.

Translated back to English:
The concept is, you presupposes the relationship, simply converts you and the decoder of the unit and following conversion.

Translated to Portuguese:
O conceito é, você pressupor o relacionamento, converte simplesmente o e o decodificador da unidade e depois da conversão.

Translated back to English:
The concept is, you to estimate the relationship, simply converts and the decoder of the unit and after the conversion.

Translated to Spanish:
El concepto es, usted para estimar el lazo, simplemente los convertidos y el decodificador de la unidad y después de la conversión.

Translated back to English:
The concept is, you you stop to consider the loop, simply turned and the decoder of the unit and after the conversion.
 

CounterAttack

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Original English Text:
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

Translated to French:
N'allant jamais vous donner vers le haut, n'allant jamais vous laisser vers le bas

Translated back to English:
Never not going to give you to the top, never not going to leave you downwards

Translated to German:
Nie nicht gehend, Sie zur Spitze zu geben, nie nicht gehend, Sie abwärts zu lassen

Translated back to English:
Never not going giving it to the point never not going leaving it downward

Translated to Italian:
Mai non andando dandolo al punto che non va mai lasciandolo discendente

Translated back to English:
Never not going giving it to the extent that it never does not go leaving it descendant

Translated to Portuguese:
Nunca não indo dando o até ao ponto em que nunca não vai lhe deixar o descendente

Translated back to English:
Never not going giving until the o the point where never does not go to leave it the descendant

Translated to Spanish:
Nunca no yendo dando hasta el o la punta adonde nunca no va a salir le del descendiente

Translated back to English:
Never not being giving until or the end where never it is going to leave him the descendant
 

ZforZissou

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My mother is a fine, outstanding woman.

Into

My matrix is, is good the remarkable woman.
 

fanklok

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Original English Text:
This game is going to result in so much mind fuck.

Translated to Japanese:
このゲームは心の性交でそんなに起因するだろう。

Translated back to English:
This game originates probably will be so with sexual intercourse of heart.

Translated to Chinese:
此比赛产生很可能如此将是与重点性交。

Translated back to English:
This competition produces very possibly so is and key sexual intercourse.

Translated to French:
Cette concurrence produit très probablement ainsi est et les rapports sexuels principaux.

Translated back to English:
This competition produces most probably thus is and the principal sexual relations.

Translated to German:
Dieser Wettbewerb produziert ist vermutlich folglich und die allgemeinen sexuellen Beziehungen.

Translated back to English:
This competition produced is supposed therefore and the general sexual relations.

Translated to Italian:
Questa concorrenza prodotta è presunta quindi e le relazioni sessuali generali.

Translated back to English:
This produced competition is presumed therefore and general the sexual relations.

Translated to Portuguese:
Esta competição produzida é presumida conseqüentemente e general as relações sexuais.

Translated back to English:
This produced competition is presumed and general consequently the sexual relations.

Translated to Spanish:
Esta competencia producida se supone y general por lo tanto las relaciones sexuales.

Translated back to English:
This produced competition assumes and general therefore the sexual relations.