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Hubris Incalculable

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Google Translate, Poet
« on: June 27, 2013, 08:08:45 pm »

So, someone on another forum I frequent came up with the idea of running a text through a bunch of different languages in Google Translate, and calling the result a poem. Here's my attempt:

Ode to Spot

[English --> Afrikaans --> Danish --> Dutch --> German --> Icelandic --> Norwegian --> Swedish --> English]

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Let the Translations commence.
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2013, 09:44:12 pm »

This looks great. PTW.
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2013, 11:44:30 pm »

Another! (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission#Mechanics)

Fission

[English --> Japanese --> Chinese (Trad) --> Khmer --> Hindi --> Korean --> English]

Neutron fission is not available in a different format.
aisautaub_thngon division (also known as natural fission) Some of the rare long.

Natural materials "nuclear reaction" in the face of nuclear fission - the collision two particles,
the process change and
nuclear bomb
nuclear collisions
of atomic particles became

प्रक्रिया आधा जीवन घातीय परमाणु प्रतिक्रिया के कैनेटीक्स द्वारा निर्धारित किया जाता है को तोड़ने के लिए इस तरह से तय की एक सहज विकिरण नहीं है.
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2013, 11:48:25 pm »

PTW.
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2013, 11:50:31 pm »

This looks great. PTW.

PTW.

Hey, don't PTW, contribute! That's why I put it in the games section!
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2013, 11:54:15 pm »

I'm working on something...but since it requires putting a huge number of short bits through the translator eight times, and I have lots of other stuff I'm doing, it'll take a while.
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2013, 11:55:20 pm »

This looks great. PTW.

PTW.

Hey, don't PTW, contribute! That's why I put it in the games section!
But I don't know what you're doing!
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2013, 12:05:24 am »

Battle Hymn of the Republic, [English --> Portuguese --> Basque --> Swahili --> Welsh  --> Icelandic --> Norwegian --> Chinese --> English]

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« Last Edit: June 28, 2013, 12:19:13 am by Ross Vernal »
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2013, 12:17:20 am »

Lorem Ipsum, Original Text, [Latin --> English --> Esperanto --> Hmong --> Catalan --> Czech  --> Maltese --> Swedish --> English]

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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2013, 07:02:48 am »

This looks great. PTW.

PTW.

Hey, don't PTW, contribute! That's why I put it in the games section!
But I don't know what you're doing!

I'm just taking a block of text and translating it in Google Translate, then translating the result to another language (rinse, lather, repeat), ending with English, and, when I'm done that, I chop it up into a poem. Easy as that.
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2013, 07:17:41 am »

I'm pretty sure that when translating from non-English to non-English Google first translates it into English, and from English to the desired language.

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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2013, 07:32:19 am »

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I work with ships, and this is just one of the basic 'charter party' clauses which are formed (basically a form of contract). It's not an excerpt from any actual contract. You should be able to find it by googling "government form time charter contracts approved by the New York Produce Exchange".

Processing..

English -> Turkish -> Danish -> Irish -> Latin -> Dutch -> Esperanto -> Tamil -> Russian -> French -> Gaelic -> Japanese -> English

Done!


True art.

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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2013, 07:47:44 am »

Decernimus (source: Declaration of Arbroath, original Latin text)

[Latin --> German --> Japanese --> Czech --> English] (with sections removed from the result for better poetic flow)

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I'm pretty sure that when translating from non-English to non-English Google first translates it into English, and from English to the desired language.
Oh well, it still makes for fun and art.
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2013, 07:50:24 am »

A Christian, a Christian,
please contact the end of the day,

I can see this becoming part of the chorus of some sort of rock song.
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Re: Google Translate, Poet
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2013, 07:51:19 am »

"Ass, sin and engineers", for instance, seems translated from 'officers, seamen and engineers'.
The jokes here are too obvious.
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