Rerouted here so as not to further derail the gears thread.

We all know that google's translator function, while useful, has not quite reached Star Trek levels of efficiency, which is why translations can still be peppered with odd bits of French, making it look like the page has been written by some sort of of nineties hipster film critic.

We want to know what sort of odd translations you've found, be they from English into another language or bad translations into English. If you've ever seen the "Backstroke of the West" translation of Revenge of The Sith, you'll know what I'm talking about (but don't link to it, you've no idea how much Obi-Wan swears about the Presbyterian Church)



To demonstrate it we have thishttp://www.conveythis.com/translation.php that runs whatever you type in through 54 translations before ending up with a garbled version of what you typed in.

e.g:

Original text:

"Excuse me sir. Could you help me find my dog? "

...54 translations later we get:

"Unfortunately, the support of Sharks?"

I just got this:
A quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's head.

54 translations later:

Fox Tiger Energy division.

It was even capitalised like that lol

Sounds like a Metal Gear chemical.

"The edited version of "Ich tu dir weh" is godlike" to "Special glass and culture of the world." silly translator everyone knows ich tu dir weh = epic win.

Ok its I hurt you, but it realy should be epic win.

Also "All hail vinegar Ra" to "Finally, in all patients."

Ok seriously where the hell speaks "Yiddish".

Apparently its not a national language, just a Jewish language.

"Just ask her out."

...54 translations later we get:

"Aliuliza."

"The three virtues are Unity, Duty and Destiny."
"The three percentage points of law."

"The Mystery Bread Man is here! Run for your lives! Save the vinegar!"
"Paper! Live! Vinegar can do it!"

"All hail Vinegar Ra and his priest, the Sig God."
"Yung River God, and I am cold and vinegar"

"Rohugh, the bear with the top hat, is watching you, scum."
"Rohugh and surfing lessons."

"Stop! You've violated the law. Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence. Your stolen goods are now forfeit."
"Exact. Sigma type of input or Punitive Damages."

"Dragons? Oh, they're everywhere! You must fly very high to see most of them, though. The ones nearer the ground are very hard to see, being invisible."
"Always and forever! If you have a very high loss of birds too. Think about what the American people to see"

"Now you die!"
"Now I can die!"
(I only did this one with ten translations, as it was the most fitting to the situation. Even better if it had stopped at "Now I'm dying!")

Before Google, we got our language chuckles reading VCR instructions.

The good old days. :hehe:

I typed in "I want pizza." and what I got back was "I love pizza." *Sobs* it's not being hilarious for me. *Sobs*

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"

Becomes:

"We do not take gas."


lolwut.

'do a barrel roll' translates to 'bath' but 'Do a barrel roll' translates to 'heat', but 'Do a Barrel Roll' Translates to 'swimming pool technology' :huh:

"Do a barrel roll!"
"Foot here!"

"It's fun to sit around and play video games." translates into "Meeting a strange animal."

I guess that could be true depending on who's playing the videogame.

My grandmother has a trampoline that has a health warning on it. "Not for emergency use or R N Y other cavities".


The US Constitution's first amendment clearly discriminates against those horrible small people who want to sit at the table:

Original text:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

...54 translations later we get:

"Belief, freedom to speak and press freedom around table, peace and national unity government to prevent small"

"Which way to the train station?"

...

"My hovercraft is full of eels."



(Just kidding, I think it may have been running a Python script...)


edit: Hah, the real translation goes:


:huh:

'Have a fishy stick' translates into 'my', but one of the earlier ones was 'I have a dirty pole'

I type in "Is there a bath house nearby?" and all I got was "WC?" :blink:

Hmm. "I was walking in the rain and I saw a car crash into a tree." translates as "Fill the tank of a motorcycle accident Monday."

I tried my sig and got "After Losing strangers eseiheeu Rock songs."

??

I think it picked up on the origin, although it's more a folk song.

"Under sun and sky we greet you, outlander"

25 translations later:

"Welcome to the Air Force, without the necessary documents."

huh

Morrowind goes very militaristic, in the other thread someone posted about teleportation and it went on about tranporting germany away.


I ran my OP through it and got this:


"French National Audiovisual show which will be players in all levels in half Schily sending nerve Google translation is an essential tool for information and ended in 1990 rather than ??????? boring."

*slaps* oh wait :slap: How could you forget expressate, he was the one who was given the vision to share with us.

"Although luftputebat Eels in full."


It is like making large circle with bunch of people and send sentence to circle around.

Well almost...

"translating seems to be a pretty difficult job. This sentence will prove this statement."

becomes:

"Movement problems for the government to test Hypotheses."




"lol this site is funny. You can get the craziest things out of normal sentences."

...54 translations later we get:

"This is an interesting name. Here are some tips for rare species."

My sig (the linked part) translates as "Forum Institute '10" And after capitalizing a few letters I get "Monday 10".

AFRIKAANS : Is dit maak spam?
Back to ENGLISH : It is spam?
ALBANIAN : ?sht? spam?
Back to ENGLISH : It is spam?
ARABIC : ??? ???????
Back to ENGLISH : It is a spam?
BELARUSIAN : Гэта спам?
Back to ENGLISH : It is spam?
BULGARIAN : Той е спам?
Back to ENGLISH : It is spam?
CATALAN : és el correu brossa?
Back to ENGLISH : It is spam?
CHINESE : 这是垃圾邮件？
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam?
CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED : 这是垃圾邮件？
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam?
CHINESE_TRADITIONAL : 這是垃圾郵件？
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam?
CROATIAN : To je spam?
Back to ENGLISH : It is spam?
CZECH : Je to spam?
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam?
DANISH : Er det spam?
Back to ENGLISH : Is it spam?
DUTCH : Is het spam?
Back to ENGLISH : Is it spam?
ENGLISH : Is it spam?
Back to ENGLISH : Is it spam?
ESTONIAN : Kas see r?mpspost?
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam?
FILIPINO : Ay spam na ito?
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam?
FINNISH : Onko t?m? roskapostia?
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam?
FRENCH : Est-ce spam?
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam?
GALICIAN : é este spam?
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam?
GERMAN : Ist das Spam?
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam?
GREEK : Ε?ναι αυτ? το spam;
Back to ENGLISH : Is this spam;
HEBREW : ??? ?? ???? ???;
Back to ENGLISH : Is it spam;
HINDI : ?? ????? ??;
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam;
HUNGARIAN : Ez a spam;
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam;
ICELANDIC : Tetta er spam;
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam;
INDONESIAN : Ini adalah spam;
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam;
IRISH : Is é seo an spam;
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam;
ITALIAN : Questo è spam;
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam;
JAPANESE : これはスパムです。
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
KOREAN : ??? ?? ?????.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
LATVIAN : Tas ir surogātpasts.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
LITHUANIAN : Tai ?lam?tas.
Back to ENGLISH : This is not spam.
MACEDONIAN : Ова не е спам.
Back to ENGLISH : This is not spam.
MALAY : Ini bukan spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is not spam.
MALTESE : Dan mhux spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is not spam.
NORWEGIAN : Dette er ikke spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is not spam.
PERSIAN : ??? ??????? ?? ???.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
POLISH : To jest spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
PORTUGUESE : Trata-se de spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
ROMANIAN : Acest lucru este spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
RUSSIAN : Это спам.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
SERBIAN : Ово ?е спам.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
SLOVAK : To je spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
SLOVENIAN : To je spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
SPANISH : Esto es spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
SWAHILI : Hii ni spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
SWEDISH : Detta ?r spam.
Back to ENGLISH : This is spam.
TAGALOG : Ito ay spam.
Back to ENGLISH : It's spam.
THAI : ????????
Back to ENGLISH : As spam.
TURKISH : spam gibi.
Back to ENGLISH : as spam.
UKRAINIAN : як спам.
Back to ENGLISH : as spam.
VIETNAMESE : là th? rác.
Back to ENGLISH : as spam.
WELSH : fel spam.
Back to ENGLISH : as spam.
YIDDISH : ??? ??????.
Back to ENGLISH : As spam.

It was the mystery bread man who made me do it! I swear! I wrote it at breadpoint!

EDIT:
"Every body will persist in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed on it."
"On the other hand, recent legal concept of public funds."
Newton's first law of motion is a conspiracy! :ahhh: