Plug an English phrase into Translation Party and it translates it into Japanese using google translate… then back into English (from the Japanese)… then back into Japanese (from the English)… and so on and so on and so on, until what you’re left with is something truly bizarre. So simple. So elegant. So fun. Hit on a winner? Let us know in the comments what you started with and what it ended it on.
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TieDyePie: This is amazing. I’m landing in town for a few days with no agenda, so this is perfect!
heather: hahahahaha! I know he plays the exact same character in every role he’s in, but how can you not love this...
Tex: ive done that in real life. its called tyme travel
Riggor: Ummm Spay on pancakes? Whats next nuetered sausage links?
MazelMesh: a belgian mazel tov!
i love bicycles: someone should have added purple monkey dishwasher at the end
Jesus: Looks like you’re on ebay…. http://cgi.ebay.com/ Fun-Gadget-Laser-Fin ger-Beams-LED-Lig...
Julia: Congrats!
samuel: Cool idea, but that phrase is too memorable to actually count for the record imo.
Anon: MLIA
August 6th, 2009 at 9:20 am
I wasn’t going to do this until I read the first line of the next post and in awe of it’s ridiculousness decided to plug it in…
So I started with: You are a giant pink monster with a runny nose and no legs, and you are under attack by tiny men.
And it gave me: Runny nose, pink feet, a giant monster attack.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I translated: “Don’t forget to take your medication, otherwise you will die.” Apparently, that will be understood for a Japanese person as:
“Shooting will not remember the death and other drugs.”
August 6th, 2009 at 10:03 am
“We skipped the light fandango, turned cartwheels across the floor” apparently means…
“We are rolling on the floor RAITOFANDANGOSUKIPPU”
August 6th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Translation Party
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me.
back into English
Problems of the mother, please do not have time to Maria.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
all you need is love, love, love is all you need
translates to
Love to love you all, I and Se are required Megumi
August 6th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Quote from The Breakfast Club: I’ll do anything sexual, and I don’t need a million dollars to do it either. I’m a nymphomaniac.
resulted in this:
Please 1,000,000,000,000 sexual dollars. I bitch.
August 6th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
McDonald’s slogan “I’m loving it” ands up as
Pavilion, bushels, and I love the morning
August 6th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Michael Jackson was the king of pop.
ended up being
The ZAKINGUPOPPU MAIKERUJAKUSON
August 6th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
“Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure”
ended with
“On the night of our adventure we are tempted to pursue the fickle”.
Although my favourite translation of it was “We are fickle in the evening, we will pursue the adventure of seduction”.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
http://www.redheadedleague.com/tp/#171221
I feel like you really have to see the whole thing?
August 6th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
A line from “Back in the U.S.S.R.”: “Well, these Ukraine girls really knock me out, they leave the West behind.”
Result: “To stop the truth, I was a girl in the Ukraine.”
Lovely.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:24 am
“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!”
resulted in:
“I smell dirty monkey feet!”
August 7th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Emma, you are right. That was totally worth the link.
August 7th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I wrote “Rhythm guitar players turn to solo playing over time”,
and the result is:
“Turn on the power play time RIZUMUGITAPUREYA solo”.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:02 am
“Down in my bolthole I see they’ve published another volume of unreconstructed rubbish” (courtesy of Nick Cave)
result:
“My My bolthole, the amount of waste, please do not composed of the following publishers:”
August 8th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
“what is a wagon wheel?” (that i picked from a children’s book)
becomes
“car?”
August 10th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
We the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect union
However, the United States and access to Google and create a more complete integration.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
PHRASE: “I’m going to google with bing.”
EQUILIBRIUM (*found?); “I’m using the Google drug.”
LOL
August 11th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I am ridiculously sick and am incapable of consuming candy or carbonated beverages, they make me rather nauseous.
TO
Soft drinks and snack consumption, and I was tired from the illness.
August 11th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I started with: I want to recieve two hundred and sixteen magnetic balls absolutely for free from zoomdoggle
And I got: It is doubtful that this phrase will ever reach equilibrium.
August 12th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
I think you’re all batty. Not a single link has worked for me. They all bring up errors.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:24 am
@ Megan, try searching for it. A lot of Zoomdoggle links end up in errors. I usually have to search them or try collegehumor.
Anyway, I put in “Don’t pass the mayo” and it ended up frizzing out and giving me the “doubtful will ever reach equilibrium” thing. Drats.
August 13th, 2009 at 6:32 am
@ Sebastian / Megan, sometimes web sites go down… with over 2K links on this site, we can’t really go back and check… but if/when you find one that’s broken, let me know and I’ll fix it. Thanks!
August 13th, 2009 at 9:13 am
From Weezer’s “El Scorcho”
“Goddamn you half-Japanese girls, do it to me every time. Oh, the redhead said you shred the cello, and I’m Jello, baby.”
Translated to:
“Half of me Each time, the daughter of the God of Japan. Red, all of my cello, Italy, groove baby, jelly headboard.”
August 14th, 2009 at 1:30 am
Try this: Do tigers shit in the woods?
August 14th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
@jakehimself
The link to the site works, but when I actually click Find Equilibrium, it does nothing. I’m confused.
August 16th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I put in “Hi mom, what is up, I really like tasty cookies.”…
It came out with “Hi My mother is a really good cookie.” XD
September 10th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Your blog is so informative ?keep up the good work!!!!
December 29th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
i went from:
“and maybe youre gonna be the one that saves me and after all youre my wonder wall”
to
“After all my questions, 21 minutes, 1,1 burner 1,1,12,1,1 one long wall is probably 59 minutes in length”
pshyeah, i am goddess at this game.