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Lost in Google Translation
http://lostingoogletranslation.blogspot.com
A game... lyrics to popular songs are taken and ground into a pulp by translating them from language to language to language using Google Translate... Take the net result, guess the original song!
- Author: Bungle Jerry
- Listed in: Music Languages
- Tags: game quiz Lyrics languages translation song lyrics
Recent Posts
I Would Like to Market My Head
In this particular case, the original is such a wordathon that what survives is bound to be a strange mess of stuff. Not too difficult, if you happen to know the song.From a plane at the airport Los Angeles, jumping is my dream coat. Welcome to the v...
They Call Me That Soft Gel
Well this one's pretty simple, really. Just including it because the translation cracks me up. Has there ever been a song with lyrics more ridiculous than the original?How we saffron crazy. Saffron and me crazy. How we saffron crazy. I am just crazy....
All the Samples of the River
I think Google Translate is slowly improving. It seems like more and more often the song makes it through seven languages with enough intact to give away the game. Like this one, for example... it got translated from English into languages as diverse...
What Time the Money was Missing
Okay, time again for the game in which we translate lyrics all asunder and ask you to decode them. Here's a pile of nonsense that, before machine translation, was less of a pile of nonsense. Back then, what was it?You can find the Barracks grill. In ...
The Integration of Me
An interesting one this time: plenty of cogent phrases shine through from the original. It doesn't get changed radically, except for the catch line: that gets processed into salad...Here in the heart and soul and we have. It is possible for the magaz...
Livestock Experts are Here to Sweat
There is just too much awesomeness here. It reminds me of why I love machine translation. Half of these new sentences could be Zen koans. Really.Me you and candy store. Malik your candy bar. Do not stop: "As long as you stay healthy. How you candy st...
