After reading an earlier post about a website that mangles text by putting it through multiple translations, Henry Gee suggested I set readers a challenge of recognizing some famous opening lines of novels after babelization. So here we go:
1. The lucky group is completely similar; All the favourable groups keep the way unhappily he was.
2. No relation of transformation of the point, in the name of the station of the work, of that that not worried, the end still to call it, one
getlteman did not live between little hour, one, of one entrerrosca and the old sample in small fine squeezes of a cremagliera of the horse and have more and more to lévier more for the packing.
3. The time is, the chronometers, will be false, is diffidenza the thing more better possible and the time made recently is the faith and the time, that recently is manufactured, is stupid and the batteries of the age to intelligence and the age that is to say, that it is dark amounts to this station, the winter is hopeless is desire and the force that motivates is this station of light/write.
4. With the yellow peripheral device unregarded Sunday and the small state in the handspike to linear of the Mollusken and in the crustaceans western in the spiral the edge that à.la.moda, that one he persecutes the water of the stagnation of the galaxy is not.
5. What I interest he, when this one first special one of great eleventy finally commemorated of the personnel the edge of the main purse negotiated the anniversary, the end to announce, any many of history and the impelling mechanism and xxxx xxxx and xxxx. (Proper names removed)
(Number four is my favourite.) And your answers are?...
I’ve got number 3 as well, I believe, and it’s in the private message I sent you, but I thought I’d give someone else a chance.
I guess No. 5 was to be expected. Anyone not getting it should keep quiet.
I think I have them all, I’ve sent Brian a PM with my answers. Whilst trying to check one of them, I came across some alternatives
Next week do we do famous first lines from scientific papers?
Lovely stuff Brian! I can only get number 1, though.
... and number 5, of course.
Bob got them all correct – congratulations. I’ll let anyone else who wants to try have a go before publishing them.
If you want to check them with me, click on my name to email me rather than list them here for all to see (Richard, that’s the only reason your first comment has been moderated – you weren’t naughty.)
Henry, I’m relieved.
Your relief should be conditional on whether I got the right answer.
You did, Henry.
Phew. After having gone around insulting peoples’ religions, I don’t think I could have stood the shame of getting that one wrong.
Just to change it up a little bit, what’s this song lyric?
“If you to fix that a interior if that one before it is not sky, this one, if you to introduce not only the hell of the way we excess we to skies the whole food they people for odierno the control of he day who are not country, of that with the difficulty is not simple, he is not nothing to do it destroys, or, the end to die by and introdurrsi no religion like all the creature of livings of the people
of the life in La Paz, that, you that you can say, from it is to the soñador, but it is not only hope of a day, that inside they had
connected and that is world, because a possession is not introduced, but that is I are strange, all the necessity to latta one of Geiz, or all the relation of transformation you with latta of the opinion that is to the soñador this one nevertheless which they are not only hope of a day, this one connected with us and of that alive world like”
I can’t imagine.
river, answered the tree of the structure of the official held in low
esteem and the orange inceppamento some returns something all the
boat, the Kaleidoskop the eye. Rose to the extremity the inclined
flower of the Zellophans and the Gruens. If it has the girl, its eye
is attemped Sunday, he goes. If it is the closed ampere of the diamond
of . Diamonds of Nenhuns those the without diamonds if of the
ampere smiles, this one the raised flower extremely to calculate to
decree that you of the switch of ç³-饼 of the protein eats the
personnel of the wood of the horse of the eruptivas agitations
affluent, you you continue to him, you you with the whole in the part
of the left. The newspaper of tassì the hour the paginations he with
the supplies to execute sea on the brink of madness. The good wealth
after that the cloud of the partial increases, with you you
surrounded. They see the equality, that one to the crystal, which it
interests in the colors of the models the glue that you of the luggage
for the full decree that it gives the form without the care of the
panel, that has the series of the characters of the marks they of the
disconnection, the end surround to give to return of the eye of Kido
and Kaleidoskop here in the girl the interior here
Rats. My asterisks bolded the text. Oh well, nothing is lost…
Not sure Richard, but it sounds like you’re either high or hallucinating. Or both.
The Beatles claim it ain’t so ;)
But it was very Lucid.
If you’ve given up on working out those novel first lines, or want to check your answers, the truth is revealed here