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    Lesbian Rebel Member Mikeus Caesar's Avatar
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    Default The many uses of Babelfish...

    I was just bored, and decided it would be a good idea to translate things like this on Babelfish :

    English-Japanese-English-Korean-English

    or:

    English-Italian-English-French-German-English-Russian-English-Japanese-English

    Just look at the results!

    Original English sentence:

    I am Mikeus. I am funny, and occasionally act like an idiot.

    After being translated using the second option:

    Those are Mikeus. Those enjoy, me do I as the fool with the chance which you write.

    This is great fun...you people should try it!
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    Babelfish does not work very well.

    i know this because i was in a Korean Guild in Guild Wars.

    none of them could understand the English-to-Korean translations that i made with Babelfish.

    in addition, Babelfish could not translate their Korean website into English.

    either way, the translations were just a bunch of words that amounted to nothing but gibberish

    hence i say Babelfish is useful for nothing other than being a novelty

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    I use it to convert websites, mainly Russian ones, which it does not to bad.

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    OK tried Shakespeare's Henry V speech:

    "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
    Or close the wall up with our English dead!
    In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
    As modest stillness and humility:
    But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
    Then imitate the action of the tiger;
    Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
    Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage;
    Then lend the eye a terrible aspect. "

    Into French (heh) then German then French then English.

    "Once moreover at the infringement very dear friends once moreover; Oder narrowly the wall upwards with our dead English! In peace, there is nothing goes so well to a man like the modest rest and Demut: But, if the breath of the war in our ears blows, to imitate the action of the tiger then; If you reinforce the cords, they call to the top of blood, just a nature the coating of hard of preferred rage; Then, you borrow the eye a terrible aspect."

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    man I love Shakespeare in German.
    The Band of Brother's Speach from Henry V

    Was ist er dieser Wünsche so?
    Mein Vetter Westmoreland? Nr., mein angemessener Vetter:
    Wenn wir das mark'd sind, zum zu sterben, sind wir das enow,
    zum unseres Landverlustes zu tun; und wenn leben,
    wenige Männer, der grössere Anteil der Ehre
    Wille des Gottes! Ich bete thee, Wunsch nicht ein Mann mehr
    Durch Jove bin ich nicht für Gold noch Obacht I covetous
    wer doth Zufuhr nach meinen Kosten;
    Es yearns ich, nicht wenn Männer, die meine Kleider tragen;
    Solche Außensachen bleiben nicht in meinen Wünschen
    Aber, wenn es eine Sünde ist, zum von von Ehre zu begehren,
    bin ich die beleidigende lebendige Seele.
    Nr., Glaube, mein coz, wünschen nicht einen Mann von England:
    Frieden des Gottes! Ich würde nicht so groß eine Ehre verlieren,
    da ein Mann mehr, methinks, von mir für die beste Hoffnung teilen würde,
    die ich habe. O, wünschen nicht ein mehr! Proklamieren Sie es eher, Westmoreland, durch meinen Wirt, der er, dem hath kein Magen zu diesem Kampf, ihn abreisen ließ; sein Paß wird gebildet und Kronen für Konvoi gesetzt in seinen Geldbeutel: Wir würden nicht in der Firma dieses Mannes sterben, die sein Stipendium fürchtet, um mit uns zu sterben. Dieser Tag wird das Fest von Crispian genannt: Er, der diesen Tag outlives und kommt sicheres Haus, steht einen Tip-toe, wenn der Tag genannt wird, und rouse er am Namen von Crispian. Er, der dieser Tag lebt und sieht altes Alter, Willen jährlich auf dem vigil Fest seine Nachbarn und Sagen ' ist morgen Heiliger Crispian: ' Dann Wille streift er seine Hülse ab und zeigt seine Narben. Und sagen Sie ' diese Wunden, die ich hatte am Tag Crispins.' Alte Männer vergessen: dennoch sind alle vergaßen, aber er erinnert sich mit Vorteilen, an welchen Meisterstücken er diesen Tag tat: sollen Sie dann unsere Namen. Vertrautes in seiner Öffnung als Haushalt Wörtern Harry der König, das Bedford und das Exeter, das Warwick und das Talbot, Salisbury und Gloucester, ist in ihrem flüssigen Schalen frisch remember'd. Diese Geschichte der gute Mann unterrichtet seinen Sohn; Und Crispin Crispian ne'er geht durch, von diesem Tag zum Ende der Welt, aber wir in ihr sind remember'd; Wir wenige, wir glücklich wenige, wir versehen von den Brüdern mi
    t einem Band; Für ist ihn heute diesen Hallen sein Blut mit mir mein Bruder; ist er ne'er, also gemein, mildert dieser Tag seinen Zustand: Und Herren England jetzt im Einbett denken sich, daß verwünscht sie nicht hier waren und ihre manhoods preiswert zu halten irgendwelche spricht das verweilt, das mit uns nach Heiliger Crispins Tag geämpft wird.
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    And here's a garbled, English-Gemrna-French-English translation.

    What' S He that wishes so? My Westmoreland cousin? No, my to fair cousin: Yew we are mark' D to die, we are enow To C our country loss; and yew to live, The fewer men, the greater share of honour. God' S will! I pray thee, wish not one man more. By Jove, I amndt not covetous for gold, NOR care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not yew men my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: Yew it Be drank has sin to covet honour, I amndt the most offending soul alive. No, faith, my coz, wish not have man from England: God' S peace! I would not roofing stone so great year honour Ace one man more, methinks, would share from me For the best hope I cuts. O, C not wish one more! Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host, That He which hath No stomach to this fight, Let him departure; his passport shall Be made And crowns for convoy could into his purse: We would not die in that man' S company That fears his fellowship to die with custom. This day is called the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand has tip-toe when the day is named, And rouse him At the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly one the vigil feast his neighbours, And say ' To-morrow is Saint Crispian: ' Then will He strip his sleeve and show his scars. And say ' These wounds I had one Crispin' S day.' Old men forget: yet all shall Be forgot, Goal he' ll remember with advantages What feats He did that day: then shall our names. Familiar in his mouth have household words Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember' D. This story shall the good man teach his sound; And Crispin Crispian shall ne' er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, Goal we in it shall Be remember' D; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For He to-day that saw-teeth his blood with me Shall Be my brother; Be He ne' er so cheap, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold to their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with custom upon Holy Crispin' S day.
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    "We were not born into this world to be happy, but to do our duty." Bismarck
    "You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both." The Right Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster
    "Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication" - Lord Byron
    "Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." - C. S. Lewis

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