Babelizing
am 31.10.2006 von Transblawg
Multibabel.
Babelizing means machine translating a text into one language, then back into English, then into another language, then back into English, and so on, until the meaning has been wrung out of it. I hadn’t actually tried it before but here it is:
Original text:
Come round any old time, make yourself at home. Put your feet on the mantelshelf, open the cupboard and help yourself.
Babelized version:
Come around at any time old, dice to form it he it house. If its feet
regulated in mantelshelf, to open the drawer and helped them.
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