Last year, when Emily and I had our huge Cinco de Mayo fiesta, we made all sorts of signs en español using babelfish. Of course when Micah started posting comments on my blog in spanish, I was reminded of the babelfish, since my year of highschool spanish is long-gone from my brain and I could only pick up a bit here and there. The really fun thing about babelfish is that you can type something in, translate it into spanish, then translate the spanish back into english and it totally changes the meaning. For example, in my comment to Micah, I wrote, "just what I was thinking," but after translating and un-translating, it came out, "hardly what I was thinking." Makes you sympathetic towards the people who end up on engrish.com.
Posted by christin at May 3, 2004 04:47 PM | TrackBackThat is my favorite website of all time. I want one of their tshirts for my birthday. (hint to everybody)
Posted by: Shannon at May 3, 2004 08:57 PMThere's an urban legend floating around about a translation machine that was put to the test. It was told to translate "Out of sight, out of mind" into (I think) Russian and when they put it back into English it said, "Blind idiot".
Posted by: Remy at May 15, 2004 09:21 AM