Pirate AND writer!
Original text:
"All the Dude wanted was his rug back. It really tied the room together."
...56 translations later Google gives us:
"Arad died in the factory. We know that this place was."
Original text:
"The Force is strong with this one. "
...20 translations later Google gives us:
"Electricity."
edited 4th Aug '11 12:09:14 PM by Mort08
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original:
deviantART is a Web site featuring art from registered users.
After:deviantART an art site for registered users
Original:
Legend has it that there are other sites besides this Wiki. This page lists the details of this absurd idea.
After 50 translations:
"According to legend, the choice between the two countries. The basic idea can say."
original:
The King Of All Cosmos gets drunk one night, and on a drunken bender accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky. The following morning, he assigns his son, the Prince of Space, to make new stars by collecting random objects from the Earth to be turned into stars.
after 50 translations:
"Shah Jahan and the sale of alcohol to kill the star. In the morning, his son, Prince, a new series of injuries to play and see what happens."
The names of the electrical charges really ought to be swapped. It is just DUMB that the place with MORE electrons is NEGATIVELY charged.
Das kann doch nicht sein!
With Babelfish:
Original: I told you bro, I told you about stairs!
Final Result: I tell people, I say below!
Original: People die when they are killed.
Final Result: Man killed when he died.
Original: Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés. The word clichéd means "stereotyped and trite." In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.
Final Result: Metaphor display device, you can count on the minds of the audience, I will be writers. Overall, the analogy is not a cliche. As the saying goes, "old stereotypes" as well. In other words, boring. We are not looking for an entry in the dry. We understand that analogy, and play with them, like, you do not.
People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.
Dropout w/ bong in hand
Original: To be or not to be, that is the question.
56 translations later: This is a problem.
Original: Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Can he walk at all, or if he moves will he fall?
56 translations later: He lost his mind? I saw blind people doing? In this case, what is?
Original: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
56 translations later: Location: the last course, a new life and new civilizations, new, star, five-year plan indicates that it is difficult to find.
edited 3rd Aug '11 7:26:21 AM by YonTroper
Insert vaguely inspirational quote here.
pantheocidal maniac
Original: Our catapults have breached the walls! Attack before the enemy regroups!
50 translations(with google AND bing):Great Wall zavyesyami! Good taenaikanchomtisatru
with just google: Iakhn game! การปฏิรูปของการโจมตีในศัตรู!
...that last one broke after it got translated to thai. but still, NO EXCUSE!
The names of the electrical charges really ought to be swapped. It is just DUMB that the place with MORE electrons is NEGATIVELY charged.
One just might
The original quote from Babylon 5.
"And we have to do it without killing a guard, without raising any alarms, and without anyone noticing that she is gone. My next trick: I shall fly around the room under my own power."
...56 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"In November, he said that killing the enemy was not raised before. The great secrets of the body."
edited 25th Oct '11 9:00:44 AM by Blurring
If a chicken crosses the road and nobody else is around to see it, does the road move beneath the chicken instead?
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
Before: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
After: Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
(Wow. that was boring. New sentence!)
Before: Who the hell said you could take all of my pens?
After: Hell he can take all of my pen?
(Why does that sounds like I'm giving my permission?)
(From the Puella Magi Madoka Magica trope page)
Before: With kindness comes naïveté. Courage becomes foolhardiness. And dedication has no reward. If you can't accept any of that, you are not fit to be a magical girl.
After: Simplicity and kindness come. Courage becomes foolhardiness. There is no reward and dedication. If he can not accept any of them, it is not adapted to the magical girl.
(Was Yoda on drugs?)
edited 25th Oct '11 9:04:04 AM by KarlKadaver
Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
The Beta Male
Start: What pisses me off is that people lump stupid together with dumb. I'm dumb. You're stupid. I actually said this two hours ago. I'm very pissy in the mornings.
Fifty translations later: Stupid is stupid, many people. What do you think?
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
ORIGINAL
I am a great man.
TRANSLATION (x56)
I am a man.
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
Before: (From a Pony fic) “Someone help! Canterlot’s under attack!” The ponies screamed in horror as the dragon rampaged through the castle.
50 Translations Later: "Help kanterlot drop!" Home skreamed points, in order to protect the dragon of fear.
Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
The filidh that cam frae Skye
56 Translations later:
"Each one of us. Safety auto deaths around the world on defense. Death and loss."
Halper's Law: as the length of an online discussion of minority groups increases, the probability of "SJW" or variations being used = 1.
Am I a weirdo?
Before: There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold, and she's buying the stairway to heaven
(alright, so I'm a bit of a Zeppelin fan)
35 translations later: "No, the who's who less","Golden Lady","buy the sky
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
same old me
Before: I just want to punch something! Punch it, knock it to the ground, then trample all over it!!!
After: I just want to hit something! If you click on the ground, and trampled on it all!
On the third site, translation x20:
After: "It is a little. Beat in the world. Description of the."
mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's mean
<33
Original: It kind of saddens me that the universe has decided to be exceptionally boring and not at all magical.
56 Translations Later: I have two ideas in the world.
but the future refused to change. the miracle never happen.
What's eatin' you, chief?
(Oh my GOD, this stuff is so fun)
After many, many translations: Here, here. You can see the work: I hate, and how. Show stomach.
War is God.
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
Before: I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question: "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?"
"No," says the man in Washington, "It belongs to the poor!"
"No," says the man in the Vatican, "It belongs to God!"
"No," says the man in Moscow, "It belongs to everyone!"
I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different... I chose the impossible... I chose...
RAPTURE.
After: Andrew Lu Ruian I'm not here to listen to the question: "What are you sweating forehead, who are not entitled to it?"
"No," people in Washington, "This is part of the poor," he says,
"No", the people in the Vatican "This is God!" He said:
"No," the man in Moscow, "Hello everyone!"
I do not want those who refused to answer. Instead I chose something else ... I chose the impossible ... ... ... ... I chose joy.
Poignant words, Mr. Lu Ruian...
Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
One just might
"As strategist and overseer, you will command our forces on Arrakis, that is the directive. You will recover territory lost by your predecessor, that is the imperative. You will acquire the planet and its one profitable feature, the spice Melange for House Ordos. That, is the only acceptable outcome. Failure is not an option. "
...56 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"The desert planet of arrakis, may be, education and human resources development, which was approved in previous versions, to Ensure the Implementation of growth is one of the members. In the village."
Somehow it figures out that Arrakis is a desert planet.
If a chicken crosses the road and nobody else is around to see it, does the road move beneath the chicken instead?
Uniocular
I think I broke it.
Start: War. War never changes.
Result: A:
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
Stupid Man Suit Wearer
Before: "Foolish are you for daring to enter my domain! Now you shall know nothing but pain and suffering!"
50 Translations later...
After: "Now we know why. แต่ความเจ็บปวดและความทุกข์ทรมาน!"
Uh...did I just summon Cthulhu?
And just for the hell of it, I did the previous one:
Before: "War. War never changes."
After: "This is war. War has changed."
Kay?
edited 27th Oct '11 10:29:44 AM by KarlKadaver
Give the world the best you have and you will get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
The Beta Male
Start: This! Is! SPARTA!
End: This! On! SPARTA!
Start: We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. We can be a horrible, senseless, uncaring monster. Anonymous is still able to deliver.
Expect us.
End: Always remember. It is clean, quiet.
edited 27th Oct '11 11:39:10 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist
What's eatin' you, chief?
Original: "War does not determine who is right, only who is left."
After 56 translations: "After the war, decided to stay."
Before: "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?"
After 56 Translations: "God's love and death, murder and death of thousands of thieves in his house?"
lolwut
edited 27th Oct '11 1:40:25 PM by Prometheus136
War is God.
What's eatin' you, chief?
Yes this is a double post, but my translation requires UTMOST URGENCY.
Before: You receive a love letter from me, you're fucked FOREVER!!
After: I love you.
That... is... amazing.
War is God.
Am I a weirdo?
Okay, that was bad (maybe I shouldn't have Rick Rolled the translator)
Before: We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand
After: I don't know how, but second, God appris taohualing new références pêches Of.
Bigotry will NEVER be welcome on TV Tropes.
Original: "Where there's life, there's hope." - John Lennon
After 56 Translations: "Hope for survival."
Okay...
Original: "When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man." - A Clockwork Orange
After 56 Translations: "If you do not like."
Um, what?
Do you like reading recursive translations? Do you think they're funny? Then this game is for you!
See what I mean? Now...I hope Iowa! Oops, I mean...on your marks, get set, GO! Stupid translator...
edited 1st Aug '11 4:21:23 PM by Mort08
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