Translation party!
Here’s a fun little site for language lovers and those who know anything about the perils of those instant online translators such as Babelfish: Translation Party.
Type in a phrase in English, and it translates it to and from Japanese until it reaches ‘translation equilibrium’ – i.e. returns the same translation in both languages. You’ll usually see that the ending phrase is quite different from your starting point…
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Bad Translator – the woes of machine translation | Language Training for Corporations & Individuals said,
June 2, 2010 @ 3:12 pm
[...] while ago I posted a link to a site called Translation Party, a site that used machine translation to translate your given phrase back and forth from English [...]