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Babelfish...the goblet of funniness

"is that a fucking bear"

French:
is c' a bear foutu

German:
is that condemns bear

Spanish:
an excrement bear is that

Russian:
the fucking the bear

Japanese:
That the [ku] well very the [ru

Chinese:
Is bear which that should die

Greek:
it is that it bears

Portuguese:
is that fucking to bear

Italian:
a sweeping bear is that one

Korean:
It is the bear which is severe

What. The. Crap. Seriously laughed at the Japanese one.
 
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original: When it dangles from a tree branch, it looks just like an acorn. It enjoys scaring other Pokémon.
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dutch and back: When it dangles of a tree branch, it looks at only as a nipple. It enjoys doing are scared other Pokémon
(so it thinks it looks like a nipple? 0.o
 
Original: Hello. My name is the name that my parents decided to put on my birth certificate.

Through Dutch: Hello. My name is the name my parents on my birth certificate decided to put.
(That isn't that terribly mangled. I actually know some Dutch, it wasn't that bad in Dutch either.)

Through Korean: Woman bond. My name in order name is the parents in my birth certificate which is decided.
(Now the meaning has changed.)

Through Japanese: Unity of woman. My name of name of order is the parent of my birth certificate which is decided.
(I didn't know birth certificates were born. Or that names could be parents.)

Through Portuguese: Unit of the woman. My name of the name of the order is the father of my birth certificate that is determined.
(So now we have discovered that the name is male.)

Through German: Unit of the woman. My name of the name of the order is the father of my birth certificate, which is decided.
(I understand even more German than Dutch. It was just as weird.)

I could write a story using this. Though I doubt anyone would want to read about the birth certificate's father, who happened to be the name of the name of an order.
 
What is this I do not even

Chinese: Anything is this I does not even want
... What?
Dutch: What this I am not even
If you said this, it's because you're odd. Get it?.. Nevermind.
French: What is this I do not even make
... Good, but where did the make come from?
German: Which this is I, do not even
... I'm watching you, babelfish... I'm watching you...
Greek: What is this i no even
Your grammar is horrible.
Italian:What is this I does not make not even
What's with all the making?
Japanese: As for this what which is I
Finally, something ridiculously incorrect.
Korean: This even court lady what
What is this I do not even
Portuguese: What he is this me does not make exactly
Sounds like Shakespeare.
Russian: That this I do not make even
Okay okay we get it you like the word make
Spanish: Which is this one I I do not even do
... I I?
 
You guys should try this translator. You can translate through 56 languages very quickly and it's hilarious.

Example:

Original text:

"I want to be the very best, like no one ever was! To catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause! I will travel across the land, searching far and wide each Pokemon to understand the power that's inside!"

...56 translations later we get:

"In fact, he wrote, and "understand"! I believe that Israel's economy in a long time."
 
What is this I do not even

Turns into

All.
...
......
Team rocket motto up to "Surrender now and prepare to fight:

เตรียมความพร้อมสำหรับภัยพิบัติ! E! นี้เป็นภัยคุกคามความปลอดภัยในโลก! Tukknmikvamsabsn! ! ไม่ ว่า ความเร็ว ของ แสง Stella!
...
......
This translator does not work.
 
ENGLISH: Flop!
AFRIKAANS : Flop!
Back to ENGLISH : Flop!
ALBANIAN : Flop!
Back to ENGLISH : Flop!
ARABIC : التقليب!
Back to ENGLISH : Flipping!
BELARUSIAN : Пераварот!
Back to ENGLISH : Coup!
BULGARIAN : Преврат!
Back to ENGLISH : Coup!
CATALAN : Cop d'estat!
Back to ENGLISH : Coup!
CHINESE : 妙招!
Back to ENGLISH : Coup!
CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED : 妙招!
Back to ENGLISH : Coup!
CHINESE_TRADITIONAL : 妙招!
Back to ENGLISH : Coup!
CROATIAN : Udar!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
CZECH : Šok!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
DANISH : Chok!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
DUTCH : Schok!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
ENGLISH : Shock!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
ESTONIAN : Shock!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
FILIPINO : Shock!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
FINNISH : Shock!
Back to ENGLISH : Shock!
FRENCH : Le choc!
Back to ENGLISH : The shock!
GALICIAN : O choque!
Back to ENGLISH : The shock!
GERMAN : Der Schock!
Back to ENGLISH : The shock!
GREEK : Το σοκ!
Back to ENGLISH : The shock!
HAITIAN_CREOLE : Chòk la!
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
HEBREW : טראומה;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
HINDI : ट्रामा;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
HUNGARIAN : Trauma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
ICELANDIC : Áverka;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
INDONESIAN : Trauma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
IRISH : Tráma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
ITALIAN : Trauma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
JAPANESE : 外傷;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
KOREAN : 외상;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
LATVIAN : Traumām;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
LITHUANIAN : Trauma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
MACEDONIAN : Немилиот настан;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
MALAY : Trauma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
MALTESE : Trauma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
NORWEGIAN : Trauma;
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma;
PERSIAN : تروما.
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma.
POLISH : Trauma.
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma.
PORTUGUESE : Trauma.
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma.
PORTUGUESE_PORTUGAL : Trauma.
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma.
ROMANIAN : Trauma.
Back to ENGLISH : Trauma.
RUSSIAN : Травма.
Back to ENGLISH : Injury.
SERBIAN : Повреде.
Back to ENGLISH : Injuries.
SLOVAK : Zranenia.
Back to ENGLISH : Injury.
SLOVENIAN : Poškodbe.
Back to ENGLISH : Injuries.
SPANISH : Lesiones.
Back to ENGLISH : Injury.
SWAHILI : Kuumia.
Back to ENGLISH : Injury.
SWEDISH : Skada.
Back to ENGLISH : Injury.
TAGALOG : Pinsala.
Back to ENGLISH : Damage.
THAI : ความเสียหาย
Back to ENGLISH : Damage
TURKISH : Zarar
Back to ENGLISH : Damage
UKRAINIAN : Пошкодження
Back to ENGLISH : Damage
VIETNAMESE : Thiệt hại
Back to ENGLISH : Damage
WELSH : Difrod
Back to ENGLISH : Damage
YIDDISH : שעדיקן
Back to ENGLISH : Damage

Translators are stupid.
 
Butterfree quote from a while ago.
"The forum got herpes when I wasn't looking? >:/ I guess it was hooking up with Serebii again. Goddamn it. "
...56 translations later we get:
"Home> I / sherebyah new relationship with a Disability."


Gog this translator sucks.
 
Hello. I am a bird named Superbird.
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"Hi, this is a big bird."

...That actually wasn't that bad. Now let's try another one.

Harry Potter has a magical wand and a magical broom.
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"Distribution of milk per month."

...how the hell
 
"My name is Conor. I like to write and read. Horses frighten me."
became
"My name is Connor. I want to read and write. Not afraid to tell him."
Not terrible....

"My Pikachu explodes regularly. It's quite irritating"
became
"I Usually use."
Completely destroyed.

"Horses are economically sound, especially in the desert and under stairs"
became
"This is particularly true of the economic wilderness."
 
"is that a fucking bear"

French:
is c' a bear foutu

German:
is that condemns bear

Spanish:
an excrement bear is that

Russian:
the fucking the bear

Japanese:
That the [ku] well very the [ru

Chinese:
Is bear which that should die

Greek:
it is that it bears

Portuguese:
is that fucking to bear

Italian:
a sweeping bear is that one

Korean:
It is the bear which is severe

What. The. Crap. Seriously laughed at the Japanese one.

that's a decent response to the original question, though!

and apparently, "dollar" becomes "U.S. Dollar", then "Yu. It. Dollar."
 
vormsterkte where of impressiveness of förster it is rare

(before going through each language once, this was "Mighty Morphing Power Rangers")
 
As for being audible song of the bird? As for calling obtaining and as for that calling voice of the forest having shone light of month? The flame which calling you obtain and as for that burns At one time, in the human fireplace which was called “the mother” it remained afterwards differing to from the ash, by you divided into seven “the crime my hand of start” As for “lust” flower “bad food” seeding as for “arrogance” as for stone “envy” spring as for “indolence” wind as for “avarice” earth and as for “anger” forest Soar the 穢 [re] which is born from the mother of seven crime lies turn turn worldwide side it is bad major crime cleaning, The tree of [erudo] which protects seven crime forests which were shot to the world by the hand of the fruit of withdrawal asks all collections to the friend “If it becomes the boring ridges on the side of a sword, that structure \ the trap it is and” “how there is a [se] time unlimited and” the demon derived teacher who is laughed The eternity which is given to the end which lost the person whom it loves and broke important ones only it is empty, for her Everything inserting and the demon derived teacher who is lost desires what to the hand? What is sought? Time in end… Alone being born from the woman, when whim of the witch who exceeds the time of the story of the crime which cultivates and tears in seven starting from the whimsical forest, the story (the [kurono] story)

This is just from the original Japanese to English. WHY.

And now, the real lyrics + a million languages
Do I hear the birds singing?
No, it's just the cry of the forest.
Do I see the moon shining?
No, it's just the fire burning.

The woman that we called our "mother"
Burned to ashes in the fireplace.
She left behind the "orginal sin"
Which we split into seven pieces.

Lust, the flower
Gluttony, the seed
Pride, the stone
Envy, the spring
Sloth, the wind
Greed, the soil
And wrath, the forest

Rise, seven sins
The filth created by the pretentious mother
Keep turning and turning, Earth
Please cleanse these seven deadly sins

The hands of the forbidden fruit
Unleashed the seven sins onto the world
Tree of Eldoh, the garden of the forest
Called on an old friend to retrieve them all.

"I don't mind as long as it keeps me entertained."
"All of time is infinite anyway,"
Sneered the sorceress.

After losing her loved one
And destroying everything dear to her
Eternity given to her
Seemed completely empty.

She who had everything lost it all.
What does she hope for?
What does she seek?
At the end of time...

Born and raised by one woman
And then split into seven pieces is the story of sin.
The crazed whims of the witch who transcends time
Starting from the forest is the Chrono Story.

And now the thrilling conclusion:
Or j'? [skopeyte], l'? Respeitos he l' The song does; She is new? Possibility, it'? S. j' Vice sound of the act [lu] of the squared one of justice;? Maan of the method, is what necessary to examine, brightness? Possibility, it'? The S. the woman of the combustion of the skin of the fire, shouting, respects ours ours of " thing;? mother"? fireplace' ;? " incenerisce of the fire; S. YOU;? Respeitos of sin" It forgets;? Who, changedded 7 to the pieces shares initially. Desires and the costs of guzzleing, correct, importance, l'? He l' It comes; He to envy, the uproar and the Earth, l' Air of justice to which [stops to make the advantage kaek], [sapro] jumps the assertion;? He l' It does; It increases of the squared one, 7 notchs of people the mother of rotation' who arrogant one observes; One puts;? [Plodoovoshch] for her lowers e, asks, cre�ërt of the circle he that dirty these 7 qu' Lauderings;? Rotation of 7 whose maintenance s that in zondeEldoh exact of the world of the permission of the axis [of laimarga is prohibited that], l' It is to regulate the commando of the workers of the squared one that it demands; It associates the long term, they totally, [chtochto] compensate. "? Don'? entertained." [Paroysiastiko] of the contamination, the brain of slight justice t;? " [Konserbopoiimena]; vituous;? Already time in any case, " Assertion;? She is infinite, the member of the respeitos that the loss that is clean sorceress of the end there already and lucht of the capacity (thing) possible and is continued and this one that concludes in the thing that this respeitos he come to give the sensation where he is vacant, to have grond of katastremmenos] he will improve and [and have there. Which, he has it to method loses with a series. Who becomes to this in the hope? d' Respeitos;? More east effort than obtains? Summary that is previously mature… Generation and the crisis of d'? L' An increase that the chronometers of the woman comes to give the history of the sins of 7 portions. L' Initially nell' [Predstavlyayushch] of handguard of the squared one with a change in the sorceress who the chronometers he understands the reverse one of the cider that the alcohol its year interrupts that it they is little.


Man, I want to read that story.
 
"I'll have some banana ice-cream, three waffles and a battery."

...56 translations later we get:

"Banana ice cream, pizza, and wood."

Shit happens, assholes create it."

...56 translations later we get:

"It was a great event."
 
"Sweet catch"
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"Disturbance of the production"

"Fire alone can save our Clan"
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"of the possibility in the sustenation not our formation that if he is independent"

"Friendship is Magic'
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"L' L' Friendship of incomprensibile"
 
Original sentence:
If Torterra is based on the World Turtle, its tree is the central tree.
Through Chinese-simp:
If the Torterra basis world turtle, its tree is the central tree.
Through Dutch:
As the Torterra tortoise of the basis world, its tree the central tree is.
At least it's a tortoise. And its tree is the central tree as the tortoise. I don't know what it means.
Through French:
Like tortoise of Torterra of the basic world, its tree l' central tree is.
The yodafied sentence now says that the tree is l' central tree like the tortoise. That's slightly easier to understand.
Through German:
Like turtle of Torterra of the fundamental world, its tree l' central tree is.
A turtle again. And the world is fundamental now.
Through Greek:
As the turtle Torterra of fundamental world, the tree l'? the central tree is.
A turtle Torterra is probably Water instead of Ground. And "l'" means "the", doesn't it?
Through Italian:
Like the Torterra turtle of the fundamental world, l' tree l'? l' tree centers them is.
Too many l'trees. And now it's a Torterra turtle. Probably still Water/Grass.
Through Japanese:
Like the turtle of Torterra of the basic world, l' Wood l' ? l' The wood there are those, it makes concentrate.
The basic world again. And there are people the wood makes concentrate.
Through Korean:
Torterra turtles of the world which is basic together, l' Tree l' ? l' That place tree will ask and them, it the concentration which makes.
Wait... Even the computer is confused. And now there are more turtles of the world.
Through Portuguese:
Turtles of the world that is basic together, l' of Torterra; Tree l' l' This tree of the place will ask for and they, it concentration which make.
Ancient turtles of the Basic world, unite! The tree asks them for something and they make a concentration. Is it the end of the world?
Through Russian:
Tortoises of peace which basic together, l' Torterra; Shaft of l' l' This shaft of place will ask and they, it concentration that make.
Tortoises of peace? Must be part Psychic. And hey, they're tortoises again! And now a shaft asks something.
Through Spanish:
Turtles of together basic La Paz that, l' Torterra; Axis of l' l' This axis of the place will request and they, he concentration that does.
What does the Axis want from the Turtles of Unity? Wait, it took La Paz as a place name.

Elliekat's link:
After Arabic:
If it is based on turtles Torterra Bank, the central tree and the tree.
If it's based on all that stuff, then what?
After Belarusian:
If it is based on the skulls Torterra Bank, the central tree and the tree.
Skulls?
After Catalan:
If the skull is based on Torterra World Bank, the central tree and the tree.
Torterra World Bank is probably an important place in a world on a giant Torterra's shell.
After Estonian:
If the skull is based on a central Torterra World Bank, and the fruit tree.
The Central Torterra World Bank. Oh, and a fruit tree! That's nice.
After Filipino:
If the skull is based on a middle Torterra World Bank, and the fruit trees.
After Finnish:
If the skull is based on Torterra in the Middle of the World Bank, and fruit trees.
Middle of the World? The tree is supposed to be in the middle of the world.
After German:
If the skull is on Torterra in the middle of the World Bank, and the fruit trees.
You have to put the skull on the Torterra in the middle of the bank.
After Greek:
If the skull is Torterra in the middle of the World Bank, and fruit trees
The skull is the Torterra.
After Haitian Creole:
If the skull head is Torterra in the middle of the World Bank, and fruit trees.
The skull head is probably some kind of monster.
After Hindi:
Torterra's head between the skull, the World Bank and fruit trees.
What is it doing there?
After Hungarian:
Tort Volterra's head between the skull and the World Bank and the fruit trees.
Volterra is probably Electric/Ground.
After Irish:
Volterra Violation head between the skull and the World Bank and the fruit trees.
After Korean:
Head and the World Bank (World Bank) and Volterra violation forty-two skull orchards.
42 is the meaning of life, right?
Final version:
World bank (vb) and 42 gardens in brain injury volterra.
 
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Babelfish:

Santo of l' In if; l' In order to divide, ascensions in center in the retirement, this there dinosauri! where as these are Christ [you the beginning] of crith - the intention community grows more tuna! ; L' The ticket of gachas of the personage is possible to the nation of Ohio and is new, [razdelyayushch], ascensions in dinosauro to the center! L' Compatriot of Ohio - communities of rayent?

Bad Translator: (first sentence never properly translated at the end) "God thought that's the curse of the Dinosaurs?"


was:

Holy fucking shit,
It’s a Dinosaur!
Jesus Christ – What the fuck!?

Oh my fucking god,
fucking Dinosaurs!
Holy shit – what the fuck!?
 
The "your own babelfishions" link on The Cave Of Dragonflies:
Original line:
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
After Japanese:
We are the Borg. Lower your shields, abandon your ship. We will add a unique biological and technical for your own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
Abandon ship, we don't want it to be full of scared humanoids. But we will give you some weird organic technology to build a new one!
After Chinese:
We are the Borg. Lower your shields, give up your ship. We will add a unique biological, and their technology. Your culture to adapt to our service. Resistance is futile.
When we assimilate your ship, we will upgrade it by connecting it to some strange alien and that alien's technology.
After Hungarian:
We are the Borg lower the shields, give up the ship. You have a unique biology and technology. A culture to adapt to our service. Resistance is futile.
Hey, you have something we want! We're so excited we forgot a comma!
After Icelandic:
We pay lower shields, give up the ship. You have a unique biology and technology. A culture to adapt to our service. Resistance is futile.
It's not the Borg anymore. These guys are Ferengi.
 
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