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Thread #12801   Message #102500
Posted By: Wolfgang
05-Aug-99 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: Klementine
Subject: ADD???: Klementine (8)
buried in another thread I have applied the English-German translation to one of Jeri's posts and immediately applied the German-English for a retranslation to give a disastrous result.

Here I ran the same procedure using Digitrads words to the first verse and chorus of a well known song:

KLEMENTINE

Digging in a cave in a Canyon,
remained for a pit out,
a miner, forty more niner
and its Tochterklementine.

OH my favourite, OH my favourite
OH my favourite, art Klementine
Thou always lost and gone,
terrible sad, Klementine.

I guess you get similar results with whatever you put in. I'll refrain from providing similar examples though it is tempting to do it English-French-English or do redo it English-German-English more than one time in succession to find out after how many runs the result is completely ununderstanable.

Wolfgang