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[Bardum Idith]

"Slaves to Armok II: Dwarf Fortress is a fantasy game."

...30 translations later Google gives us:

"Armin II: Dwarf fortress is a great game."

Almost right 

[lordcooper]

"Money is the root of all evil"

...56 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"Erreur"

[vagel7]

"We will, we will rock you!"

...56 translations later Google gives us:

"Erareac!"

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Original text:

"Take me down to Paradise City, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty"

...56 translations later Google gives us:

"Paradise City, People, lots of vegetables"

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Original text:

"The Phantom of the Opera is here, inside my mind."

...56 translations later Google gives us:

"Is the cost of your spiritual life."

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Original text:

"Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots"

...56 translations later Google gives us:

"Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the home supporters."

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Hehe

[RedKing]

1st attempt:
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime."

30 Bing translations later:

"How to eat, fish and fishery products, whether or not, and never be used as a food for life: Nauki."

Haitian Creole was where it really started to leave the tracks:

Back to English : Give a man a fish and feed him. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.
Haitian Creole : Fè yon moun nan yon pwason ak manje l. Anseye yon moun pou poissons ak nou manje l' pou lavi.
Back to English : Have somebody in a fish and food. Teach a man poissons and we had a meal of him for a life.

2nd attempt:
"The mountains are high, and the Emperor is far away."

...30 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"Shangaohuangdiyuan place."

0_o.....that first one is the actual pinyin of the English phrase. Looks like Bing just translated the phonetics of the characters instead of the meaning. After that, all subsequent translations treated it as a loanword or proper name and didn't translate it.


3rd attempt:
"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." (Ezekiel 25:17, from Pulp Fiction)

...10 translations later Bing gives us:

"Marriage, attempts to kill his brother, the great vengeance and furious. You can stop the strike. Note that multiple time teachers."

What. Man, that went south with a quickness.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Japanese : 私はなたに偉大な復讐と激しい怒りと人の毒し、私の兄弟を破壊しようとウィル ストライク。私は、主はあなたに私の復讐を置く場合を知っています。
Back to English : I poison thee with great vengeance and fury and people trying to destroy my brothers will strike. Know if I put my revenge on you Lord.
Spanish : Yo thee envenenar con gran venganza y furia y gente que trata de destruir a mis hermanos a huelga. Saber si pongo mi venganza sobre ti Señor.
Back to English : I poison thee with great vengeance and fury and people seeking to destroy my brothers to strike. Know if I get my revenge on you, Mr.
Danish : Jeg gift dig med stor hævn og raseri og folk, der søger at ødelægge mine brødre til at strejke. Vide, hvis jeg får min hævn over dem, hr..
Back to English : I married you with great vengeance and rage, and people who seek to destroy my brothers to go on strike. Know, if I get my revenge on you, Mr.
Thai : ฉันแต่งงานคุณ มีดี vengeance และ rage และผู้ที่แสวงหาการทำลายพี่น้องของฉันจะไปหยุดงานประท้วง ทราบ ถ้ารับการแก้แค้นของฉันบนคุณ Mr
Back to English : I married you have great vengeance and rage, and who seek to destroy my sister will go to stop the strike. Note If you get my revenge on you, Mr.
Slovenian : Sem poročen, ste super maščevanjem in bes, in ki poskušajo uničiti mojo sestro bo šel ustaviti stavke. Opomba Če boste dobili moj maščevanje na vas, gospod.
Back to English : I'm married, you are great vengeance and rage, and trying to destroy my sister will go to stop the strike. Note If you get my revenge on you, Sir.
Japanese : 結婚した時、偉大な復讐と怒りは、私の妹を破壊しようとしました。 ストライキを停止できるようになります。私の復讐を先生を取得するかどうかは注意してください。
Back to English : I am married, with great vengeance and furious that tried to destroy my sister. You can stop strikes. Note that whether or not the teacher to get my revenge.
Latvian : Es esmu precējies, ar lielu atriebība un negants, kas mēģināja iznīcināt savu māsu. Jūs varat pārtraukt streiku. Ņemiet vērā, ka, vai skolotājs, lai saņemtu manu atriebties.
Back to English : I am married, with great vengeance and furious that tried to kill her sister. You can stop the strike. Note that if a teacher to get my revenge.
French : Je suis marié, avec grande vengeance et furieux qui tente de tuer sa sœur. Vous pouvez arrêter la grève. Notez que si un enseignant pour obtenir ma vengeance.
Back to English : I am married, with great vengeance and furious that attempts to kill her sister. You can stop the strike. Note that if a teacher to get my revenge.
Korean : 결혼, 좋은 복수와 분노는 그녀의 여동생을 죽 일 하려고 합니다. 파업을 중지할 수 있습니다. 만약 내 복수 교사는 note.
Back to English : Marriage, great vengeance and furious attempts to kill her sister. You can stop the strike. Note that if my multiple teachers.
Turkish : Evlilik, büyük intikam ve kardeşi öldürmeye öfkeli girişimleri. Grev durdurabilirsiniz. Birden çok zaman öğretmenler unutmayın.
Back to English : Marriage, attempts to kill his brother, the great vengeance and furious. You can stop the strike. Note that multiple time teachers.

Okay, Lysabild or one of our other resident Danes, please to be with the explaining? How on earth does "poison" wind up coming back as "married"?

[Sean Mirrsen]

"Bananas are an excellent source of potassium."

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"Sheng dilwit his bananas, potassium is closed."
"Autobots, transform and roll out!"

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"Drink plenty of water." (WHAT?!? How the... what in the... WHAT?!)
Similarly,:
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:
 (several variants)
"The Rainbow in my body." (...)
"Visit the available materials." (...)
"We Flo. Card." (.!?)
"• Check equipment for nuclear power plants. It is the only way." (okay, that's closer. But what's with the dot?)
"The only way to remove the prostate." (okay, I give up)

edit: oh sure, right after I submitted the post it gave me the only sane result:

"This is so good that we had to leave."

I can't agree more.

[Syreniac]

The best of my selection of relatively boring ones:

"In Soviet Russia, television watch you!"

Became...

"The TV can not be undone" 

[RedKing]

Good film quotes seem to excel at this.
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""The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." (The Usual Suspects)

...10 translations later Bing gives us:

"Satan, the ever expanding knowledge ensures the world no longer exists."
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"And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. " (Fargo)

...30 translations later Bing gives us:

"I would like to, but partners, 3."
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"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." (Monty Python & The Holy Grail)

...30 translations later Bing gives us:

"Black President, "Hamster criciuma, dark". The Oldest." (wtf?)
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[Karnewarrior]

I would tap that ass

Ass Attack

Comfort Optical Mouse attack.

[Reudh]

How are you, my friend?

56 later:

My friend?

I don't want to have to do this but you've forced my hand.
56 later:

No, but I know.

Though after it went to Welsh the first time, shit got interesting.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Welsh (Google) : Dydw i ddim eisiau, ond mae grym fy llaw.
Back to English (Google) : I do not want, but force my hand.

DO NOT WANT, BUT FORCE MY HAND
 

[Levi]

From my coding changelog at work:

"Fixed a crash bug that would happen after marking a portion of primer bad from within the sequence finisher."
to
"Brake linings, the number of errors, which are the center of the character is not valid."


"Ctrl-M now iterates over the bases that are mixtures in the sequence finisher."
to
"Hold down the ctrl key in the database."


"Added a help button to the sequence finisher window that has a list of keyboard shortcuts."
to
"In addition, the Raccourc, where the contents of the navigation pane button to the list of fonts."


"If common.export_edits_lowercase=true then exported sequences will have human edits as lowercase letters."
to
"If you are connected. Release Export_edits_lowercase."


This was with 30 translations with Bing.

[RedKing]

Shit, I should have used this in reverse to see if they could make sense of the instructions I got with cheap Taiwanese wireless card.

[Draxis]

i think Halo is a pretty cool guy eh, kills aliens and doesn't afraid of anything

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"The joy of slaughter in other countries." 

“I use the word "quotation" for lack of a better description.”

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"If this document."

“Cthulhu and I had some good times, but we went our separate ways... I had my acting career, and he had his unspeakable death-dreams, asleep in his ancient city beyond the shadowy eons of time."

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:
"So, new year, Yvonne Luo Hai Gmail mint us. World's original universe xyang Jews before the second time, to find a good tutorial anatomy Gmail eggs Y. wangmingdingxingkaiwang."

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What I'm wondering is, how Cthulu got translated out? 

[Bardum Idith]

"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
=> "Kthulhu my teacher, to prevent cell death from the water."
Second attempt:
=> "First, the Heart of Jesus, God is not waiting for the night."

"Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!"
=> "Production of black youth in God Niggurath E!"
=> "Nearly Wild - Niggurath and thousands of black children."

"Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth."
=> "Door Sotot. Control Sotot. Login Sotot muttered. In the past, present and future, hundreds of newspapers."
=> "Yoga - present and future Sothoth Sothoth yoga yoga Sothoth Sothoth port security guard in the past."

[Sean Mirrsen]

"When all you have is a hammer, everything else starts looking like a nail."

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"If you believe that there are new elections."
"One small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind."

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"Small step for the development of Aa-man."

[Sean Mirrsen]

"I have not failed. I have simply found 10000 ways that do not work."

...50 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"A group of just 10 million people."
(Believe it or not, that's not the biggest deviation. One of the previous translations was "I don't have a staff of just 10 billion.")