Klementine

05 Aug 99 - 08:47 AM (#102500)
Subject: ADD???: Klementine (8)
From: Wolfgang

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

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05 Aug 99 - 08:57 AM (#102507)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: Wolfgang

sorry, I yielded to the temptation. Here's what I get after repeating the procedure three more times:

KLEMENTINE

Remained into a cave in a Canyon,
out for a pit, a miner
forty you dig more more more niner
and its Tochterklementine.

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

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05 Aug 99 - 09:31 AM (#102516)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: Rick Fielding

Wow, Wolfgang. Some songs just get better and better in other languages!
Rick

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05 Aug 99 - 11:43 AM (#102556)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: campfire

In a language class I tok in college, the instructor talked of a translating program. They put in the phrase:"The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak". It was translated into Russian and then back into English by the computer program. End result:

"The vodka is fine but the meat is spoiled"

Possibly an anecdote to get us to study harder....

campfire

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05 Aug 99 - 11:49 AM (#102559)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: Roger the zimmer

Out of Sight Out of Mind allegedly comes back: Invisible and Insane.(Good definition of a mudcatter!)

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05 Aug 99 - 12:17 PM (#102564)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: Peter T.

"Ach du lieber
Ach du lieber
Ach du lieber, Klementine
Du bist wie ein rotes Dummkopf
Ach du lieber, Klementine.

Gee, this translating is easier than I thought.
yours, Peter T.

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05 Aug 99 - 04:21 PM (#102631)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: bob schwarer

I've been playing around with translations, back & forth and rally get some wild results. Fun though.

Bob

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05 Aug 99 - 04:47 PM (#102634)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: Allan C.

Yeah, I tried translating a couple of the threads into Portuguese. Sometimes I could almost understand some of it. The neat thing is that nom de plume's like, Seed get translated as well. I can't wait to see what happens to The One and Only Dai and Rick Fielding.

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06 Aug 99 - 09:33 AM (#102783)
Subject: RE: Klementine
From: MMario

for some verdammit reason the translation page is BLOCKED by the content filter on my network! I HATE that! why would they possibly block such a site?

MMario

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