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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Razor on October 14, 2002, 10:38:49 am

Title: Wow! Check it out!
Post by: Razor on October 14, 2002, 10:38:49 am: Check it out. It translates pages. Ever woundered how HLP looks in French? Edited :D

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

EDIT Here is a pic:

(http://babelfish.altavista.com/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.3dap.com%2FHLP&lp=en_fr&tt=url)
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Post by: Fineus on October 14, 2002, 10:50:52 am: Uh... dude? That's French, not Chinese ;)
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Post by: Razor on October 14, 2002, 10:52:06 am: I know. :D
Wanna see the Chinese one? it's creapy. :eek:
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Post by: Redfang on October 14, 2002, 11:03:25 am: Hmm, I've knew about that site for half year or so. :blah:
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Post by: Razor on October 14, 2002, 11:05:37 am: I found about it today. I just really wanted to see HLP in another language so I translated the page. Kinda looks better in French than in English. :nod:
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Post by: Nico on October 14, 2002, 11:09:30 am: hmm, yeah, but that's french spoken by a 2 years old martian :p
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Post by: mikhael on October 14, 2002, 11:35:21 am: Quote
Originally posted by venom2506
hmm, yeah, but that's french spoken by a 2 years old martian :p

No one has ever said that the Fish translates well. Its literalist and simplistic in the extreme. Language translation is not a job best trusted to machines: they fail on human subtlety.

For real fun, take some text and translate it into French, then french to german, german to japanese, japanese to spanish and spanish to english (or keep going until you get to a language you like). The results are incredible. :D
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Post by: Carl on October 14, 2002, 12:00:56 pm: everyone on the internet knows about babelfish
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Post by: Stunaep on October 14, 2002, 12:07:15 pm: Je ne sais pas ce qui se produit, mais I sûr comme lui.

a dime to whoever can guess what that meant in English.

so much about artificial translators :p
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Post by: Razor on October 14, 2002, 12:18:01 pm: Does it perhaps mean?
I do not know what occurs, but I sure like him. :wtf:
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Post by: Ulundel on October 14, 2002, 12:28:22 pm: Heh, even I can't figure out what hes saying.
Hmm...the first part actually means...ummm, I don't know what he self products... :wtf: shouldn't it be je ne sais pas ce qu'il produit...naaah. Damn Stunaep, what the **** are you trying to say. this is the sickest french I have seen in years.
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Post by: CP5670 on October 14, 2002, 12:36:38 pm: I tried what mikhael suggested with a two-way translation and the strangest results came up; here are the funnier ones:

Quote
Original sentence in English: The limiting value of the difference between the poles of the exponential integral and logarithm functions is the Euler gamma constant.

Korean: Between the pole of quotient whole and log function is different the restricted value Euler feeling E to do not change.

French and German: The limiting value of the difference between the fattenings of the integral and the exponential functions of logarithm is the constant gamma of Euler.

Chinese and Spanish: The value limits this entered integral differentiates the polar area and the gamma of the logarithm of Euler is this constant.

All eight languages in order (this is the best one :D): Diverse increase gamma of the limit of the value of the smallness, the Euler who is with that incorporates pithead of the activator of the exit of the function of the registry the space that the repairs had moved in the whole c.

:D :D :D
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Post by: Stunaep on October 14, 2002, 12:38:35 pm: I didn't make it. the translator did.

I don't know what is happening, but I sure like it.''

I get the cookie :p
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Post by: Ulundel on October 14, 2002, 01:08:03 pm: Oh noo you won't ;7
And this translator rocks. Almost as funny as miss Fox. *very stupid laugh*
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Post by: Kellan on October 15, 2002, 09:59:01 am: CP, that would've been funnier if:

1) We knew what all those terms meant.
2) It wasn't sodding maths.
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Post by: Cannikin on October 15, 2002, 10:26:32 am: Rofl, it even translates the HLPBB. I'm looking at this thread now translated :lol:
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Post by: Stunaep on October 15, 2002, 10:38:20 am: Cool! I'm gonna love watching the translation of Word Association
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Post by: Stunaep on October 15, 2002, 10:46:35 am: some things I have seen so far:

Guerre de Terran-Vasudan

Loup de GTD

Guerre de l'indépendance 2 (et Je- Guerre)

Prise Chaude De Fil De Femmes Deux

Dizaines de douze - even the user names get a go.
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Post by: CP5670 on October 15, 2002, 10:55:52 am: Quote
1) We knew what all those terms meant.
2) It wasn't sodding maths.

I just typed in some random thing that was on my mind at the time, but you don't need to know any math for those; just look at the sentence structure and the strange words that turned up in there. :D There is "fattenings of the integral", something about "differentiating the polar area," (in math, the words have completely different meanings from the originals), and I don't even need to say anything about the last one. :D :D
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Post by: kode on October 15, 2002, 11:34:22 am: It is teh funnier if you try to translate the all your base thingy.
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Post by: Sheepy on October 15, 2002, 11:35:49 am: It made me laugh when i founf out you could translate Google into Klingon! :lol:
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Post by: Stealth on October 15, 2002, 12:58:08 pm: are you serious? AWESOME!
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Post by: Carl on October 15, 2002, 01:02:12 pm: all your basis everything are belonging to us, it is.
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Post by: Stealth on October 15, 2002, 01:06:19 pm: wtf ;)
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Post by: Levyathan on October 15, 2002, 02:38:53 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Kellan
CP, that would've been funnier if:

1) We knew what all those terms meant.
2) It wasn't sodding maths.

That would've been funnier if:

1) You had just said "They look all the same to me!"
2) There were a dancing monkey holding a watermelon right behind you.

Correction: if he were dressed just like Carmem Miranda it would be even more fun!
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Post by: Stunaep on October 16, 2002, 08:19:06 am: and that was even more blatant spam than I can come up with.
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Post by: Levyathan on October 16, 2002, 10:59:20 am: I'm taking that as a compliment.
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Post by: Razor on October 16, 2002, 12:30:37 pm: Now now kids, play nice or I will be forced to blow things (people) out.
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Post by: Goober5000 on October 17, 2002, 01:55:16 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Sheepy
It made me laugh when i founf out you could translate Google into Klingon! :lol:
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Originally posted by Stealth
are you serious? AWESOME!
Unfortunately, no. Google only displays the interface in Klingon - it doesn't translate on-the-fly. Someone had to translate all the buttons, etc. previously.

However, I've found a real, actual Klingon translation program! It's really good, too. Can anyone read this? :D

mu'tlheghvam DalaDlaHchugh, tlhIngan DaSov

It's available here: http://higbee.cots.net/~holtej/klingon/poj.htm