Monday, August 08, 2005

no wonder i don't know what i mean half the time

borrowed this . . . it's fun:
you can babelize stuff by translating it in and out of various languages. or you can get this site to do it for you. par example:

my new favourite song loses some of its . . . charm when i need this old train to break down becomes i have the necessity of this old rupture of the series ignited here

and jane austen may have seemed complicated before - it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife - but it seems to survive babelization: the recognized truth is one, man simple in the possession of the great wealth to be must an internal demand of the part of a woman.

and theology can get messed up, too: i am saved by grace, through faith becomes they had happened with the beauty, of that the faith he them aids. ahem.

and the theme verse for residence this year - the reality, however, is found in Christ - might not work as well if it claimed that the truth nevertheless is like the Christian! the truth would be in very grave danger were that the case! (it's german, by the way, that changes "Christ" to "Christian" . . . troubling.)

this is too fun for words. it is safeguard of equally for the words.
i'm going to stop now. hour i apprehension.
see you later! they see more later! (ooh . . . they do?! crazy!)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's crazy that you found that website because just last Saturday my co-worker and I found a website that had the text of a book from the 19th century. The author of the book was Portuguese and didn't have a Portuguese-English dictionary on him, so he used a Portuguese-French dictionary and then a French-English dictionary instead. The results are hilarious!!

C~

Site found at:
http://crossroads.net/honyaku/easis

Neely said...

Addicting, isn't it?! I've been on a languages kick lately, so I'm reading all these fun books, including ones on the Canadian language!

I'll have to check out that site when I get a chance too :)

g. mango said...

oh my.