Many thanks to Lou Larsen for pointing out a website the ‘Babelizes’ text by passing it through multiple automatic translations until it can be subtly but delightfully unrecognizable.
The website gives the example that
I’m a little tea pot, short and stout.
translates to
They are a small POTENTIOMETER, short circuits and a beer of malzes of the tea.
And why not.
I managed to get this:
The time damaged in the rat between the cat. from While the cat’s away the mouse will play
Here are two classic opening sentences of novels:
The period of great est human in the current seins does not order he personally them he, to the data of the considered one wants, around indicated, to and the escapes process highly of intelligence, anybody, 19 the year last to. In order to probably believe the century,
and, somewhat easier to recognize, but highly unnerving:
The recognized truth, a simple man in the possession of a wealth is
one, being must an internal demand of the part of a woman.
… feel free to guess which books before checking at the bottom of the post.
To make your own perversions of well known phrases and sayings, slip over to this website
The novels are:
- The War of the Worlds (No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own)
- Pride and Prejudice (It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.)
Brian – please can we have some more snafu’d opening sentences, which you’ll keep secret, and we can all have a go at guessing for a short period – a week, maybe – before you dramatically reveal the answers?
Henry, shouldn’t that have been “Can Brian _ of that one calm more phrases of that the program they who I must possibly request in him the opening of snafu_d, when segretezza of the ways he aquisizione of you_ll and all the marks we he has attaqu with the valuation by a short period _ one week, _inside, before the end you visualize the answers?”?
Bob, your profile has changed:-
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the statistical ones (a task that depends that ignition later, that I
speak). The greater part of my work is with the relation of both.
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comrade to bring, who would wish to say that she can come up to make
the instruction exaggerated.
Related, check out Tom Rielly discussing Global Warming using Babelfish TED 2006.
Tom directs his comments here at Al Gore who is sitting in the front row.
The relevant section starts right on 13 minutes.
The babelfish saw the squib at the top of my blog and admitted defeat. This is what happened…
Décrit par Karl Zimmer comme “one de mes gaspillages préférés de time” ;, La fin de l’exposition de pilier est le poste d’éraflure en ligne d’éditeur de nature, résidant de la Norfolk et autrefois monster" de "garage-bande ; Henry Gee et ses giraffes unicycling stupéfiantes… Oops. The babel fish is being particularly unreliable right now. Perhaps try again after a cup of tea?
Personally, I blame les giraffes unicycling.
Henry, didn’t you spell girrafes wrong? I’ve risen to your earlier challenge, but I’ve done it here in a different post to avoid confusion.
Brilliant! The devastation to shout towards outside and the dogs of the war are
barren lost!
I spelled ‘giraffes’ in the approved fashion, but it didn’t like it. But that was yesterday. Today, the header of my blog came out as
Described of the quarters of the Karl it appreciates “one of wastings of the preferential mine of time”, The extremity of the contact of the tree of the trowel of the beginning is the station of the risk in the chain of the publisher of the nature, inhabitant of the Norfolk and in leading of monster" of the restorations nonupdated of "garage of the periods ignited of the sticky tape inside ignition; Henry Gee and relati some you them giraffes, that one
is sorpresendo that unicycling.
So now you know.
Endless fun!.
My profile here came up as “They write science and they are special the development, of that
genetics and the Virologie, in that primatology, of that one begun exempted. The function of the version in the alcohol of the development of the transmission of the virus must wish of the conservation con.estusiasmo the extremity of the cause.”
Cath, that sounds exactly like one of the abstracts we’ve been giggling over in secret at the Good Writing journal club.
Here’s an actual blog that reads in much the same way. Every sentence starts off sounding sensible, then I find my eyes kind of sliding off the page. Then I try reading it again, only to realise that it really doesn’t make any sense at all.
My God. It’s full of stars.
Is that deliberate, do you think?