Fun with Google Translate

Load up Google Translate, translate a sentence from English to another language, then copy the output and translate it back to English. Comment on the results.

Input: TV Tropes will ruin your life.

Language: Latin

Output: TV Tropes will destroy your life. "

Um... that's a bit harsh.

Input: "The Wicked Witch baked my sister up and made cookies out of her. I must now be pissed off. Damn."

Language: Japanese

Output: "Wicked Witch and her sister baked, cookies made from her. I must be mad now. Shit!"

Sounds like a very bad attempt at making a haiku...

Ok, so I just come up in this grill here, and translate my favorite music?

分かったので、私はここではこのグリルで出てくると私の好きなの音楽を翻訳？

I knew, where I translate my favorite music comes out of this grill?

Input: At work, while I am working, I work at the Department of Redundancy department.

Language German (Bei der Arbeit, während ich arbeite, ich arbeite in der Abteilung für Redundanz-Abteilung.)

Output At work, while I work, I work in the Department of Redundancy Department.

Boooring...

edited 24th Jan '11 3:46:34 AM by FuschlatzOReilly

Input: What does that mean? It makes no sense! Who wrote such a strange thing that no one could ever decipher? And why would anybody write something like this?

Language: Korean

Output: What does it mean? This is bullshit! Who's a strange thing that no one can decrypt cared? And why on earth anyone would write this way?

Input: Born down in a dead man town, the first kick I took was when I hit the ground ,you end up like a dog that's been beat too much ,till you spend half your life just covering up

Language: Japanese

Output: Born in the city of the dead to spend over half your life you have taken the first kick I was in when I hit the ground, like a dog has so many victories Becomes

I think I understand now why so many people prefer their anime subbed...

Input: Born down in a dead man town, the first kick I took was when I hit the ground , you end up like a dog that's been beat too much , till you spend half your life just covering up

Spanish: Nacido en un pueblo muerto, que se lanza primero que hice fue cuando me golpeó el suelo, termina como un perro que ha sido un fantástico demasiado, hasta que pasan la mitad de su vida apenas cubriendo hasta

Final result (on english): Born in a ghost town, which is released first thing I did was when I hit the ground, ends up as a dog that has been a great too, until you spend half your life just covering up

Input: Rattle Big black bones, in the danger zone! There's a rumblin' groan, down below. There's a big dark town, it's a place I've found! There's a world going on, UNDERGROUND!!

Language: Japanese

Output: Big black bones rattle in the danger zone! Rumbling groan are down. Dark city has a big place I found it! The world is going underground!

My reaction: ...What the flying fuck.

edited 24th Jan '11 6:51:35 AM by MrW

Young man, there's no need to feel down, I said young man, pick your feet off the ground and just go there, to the YMCA.

KER-GERMAN!

Young man, there is no need to feel, I said young man, pick your feet off the ground and only go there to the YMCA.

...Interesting.

Tangentially related: ask it to translate "lorem ipsum dolor" from Latin...

The Latin translator must be programmed with known phrases, both due to the above nonsense and the fact that it picked up on "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur" flawlessly.

edited 24th Jan '11 12:49:59 PM by sgrunt

Input: Over nine thousand channels, and nothing on television.

Language: French

Output: More than nine thousand channels and nothing on television.

Not bad.

Input: There are two things I inherited from my father! The first is the Lightning-Edge, and the second, is the spirit of the samurai! I may not have great skill, but I do possess loyalty, and I vow never to dishonour or disgrace my lord's name!

English to latin: Duo sunt mihi hereditas mea genitor Primum est Pegasus-ora, et hoc est secundum spiritum samurai! Habeam magni, sed mihi fidem habere, et nunquam mehercule dedecore contumeliam nomen dominus!

Latin to english: There are two things to me the inheritance of my father with my Pegasus-The first is the mouths of, and this is according to the spirit samurai! Goes through a great, but to me to have faith in, Upon my word, and never disgrace the name of the lord of an insult!

edited 24th Jan '11 1:04:59 PM by SeveredKhan

Input: If you think I've evolved beyond the joys of murder, you'd be wrong!

Language: Russian

Output: If you think that I turned for the joy of killing, you were wrong!

Yeah, not quite getting ya, M.O.D.O.K..

edited 24th Jan '11 1:10:09 PM by MrPastry

Input: The Vodka Is Good But The Meat Is Rotten.

Language: Russian

Output: Vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.

Input: Why create, when it will only be destroyed? Why cling to life, knowing that you have to die?

Language: Korean

Output: Why only be destroyed when it is, would you prefer? Why, knowing that you die, clinging to life?

Input: Green moon, tired car, anagrammatic hobo and scientific sock.

Swahili: Kijani mwezi, uchovu gari, hobo anagrammatic na sock kisayansi.

Output: Green moon, fatigue driving, hobo sock is grammatic and scientific.

When my webcomic series finally gets made, I'll try my hardest to shoehorn "hobo sock is grammatic and scientific" somewhere.

Hobo sock is grammatic and scientific is one of the funniest things I have ever read.

Greek:Hobo κάλτσα είναι grammatic και επιστημονικά είναι μία από τις πιο αστείες πράγματα που έχω διαβάσει ποτέ.

Hobo sock is grammatic and science is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

• I wanna fly high so I can reach the highest of all the heavens. Somebody will be waiting for me, so I have gotta fly higher.
• 私はすべての天の最高に達することができるように高く飛ぶと思います。誰かが私は高く飛ぶ得たが、私を待っているだろう。
• I would be able to fly higher to reach the highest of all heavens. Someone has got me flying high, I'll be waiting for.

If you need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the enclosed instruction book.

Hungarian: Amennyiben információra van szüksége arról, hogyan jut át a szállodák, nézd meg a mellékelt használati utasítás.

English: If you need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the accompanying user manual.

You know what they say, all toasters toast toast!

Polish:Wiesz co oni mówią, wszystkie toast toast toast!

You know what they say, all of toast toast toast!

Input: Sing with me, sing for the year. Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears. Sing with me, just for today. Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away.
Translate: Polish.
Output:Sing with me, sing for the year. Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears. Sing with me, just for today. Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you far.



...Maybe we haven't been giving the translator enough credit.

Input: Here I go again on my own, going down the only road I've ever known

Translate: German

Output: Here I go again on my own, down the only road I've ever known

Hmm... not bad. Let's try something harder!

Input: I've got sunshine on a cloudy day

Translate: Chinese

Output: I have the sunshine on a cloudy day

...hot DAMN, this thing is good! OK, one more:

Input: Right now you are down and out, and feeling really crappy, and when I see how sad you are, it sort of makes me happy

Translate: Yiddish

Output: Right now you are down and out, and feeling really crappy, and when I saw how sad you are, it kind of makes me happy

...OK, I give up.

edited 26th Jan '11 9:48:04 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest

Input: How d'you do, I see you've met my faithful handyman. He's just a little brought down because when you knocked, He thought you were the candyman. Don't get strung out by the way that I look, Don't judge a book by its cover. I'm not much of a man by the light of day, But by night I'm one hell of a lover

Translate: Hungarian

Output: How d'you do, I see you've met faithful handyman Just a little brought down because when you knocked I thought you were the Candyman. Do not get strung out on the road, I'm looking for Do not judge a book by its cover I am not a big man in the light of day, But the evening was a hell of a lover

edited 26th Jan '11 10:17:06 AM by SeveredKhan

Input: Odette Sansom was a French SOE agent during World War II who was captured by the Gestapo and tortured, but survived.

Azerbaijani: Odette Sansom edən gestapo və işgəncə tərəfindən girov götürülüb Dünya müharibəsi zamanı bir Fransız SOE agent, lakin bildi.

Output: Odette Sansom was captured by the Gestapo and tortured during World War II SOE agent in French, but was able to.