In my post featuring my French-language posting on a Quebec blog I cautioned against plugging it back into babelfish. ABFreedom ignored this at his own peril and tried to piece together what I wrote. (For future reference, I will try to remember to post on my blog (or theirs) the English that I wrote just in case it assists amateur translators).
Anyways, just for kicks, I took this piece on the closing of The Standard, and ran it through babelfish changing the English into French.
I then took the resulting French text, and ran it again through babelfish changing the French into German.
Finally, I took the German text and sent it back through into English. Here is the result:
I received the word today over the present/immediate messenger that the standard is now closed and again-opened under a new name: Restoroute the Électrique Ranch. I on always remember, how him yesterday were, if the open standard. It was on the building site classical t Barry of the bar of the and rising up rock... The years of the youth were hardly their surname often good-earn the old girls of 16, and always there 17 years were in the abundance. Owing to the miracles to be and the legal protection had 18 and 19 the means of the adults all ages by section 151, who were hardly made by the years of the youth, a paradies for types. Then the tragedy met. At the beginning of of 2002 was introduced downward a male of the Asiatens to the stationing fate before the bar, during always in its vehicle. In last months from 2001 t Barry were forced, in order to change its policy of many years and officially not approved of: Group of Asians did not leave. The letters annoyed at Edmonton register and SEEN and a SEEING indicated to practice, and after much pressure and complaint toward the rights of the court people Asians were permitted in the bar masses -, even that one, which looked at thuggish, and which to Entleerer gave creeps. Some months late type, which died in the stationing fate. That Halloween the part of clothes planned with the registration alone made by hours like the t Barry those decision rather which can be closed cancelled as to pay the insurance of dehors de commande, which would have been demanded after the deadly Pistolenhauchen. The ethnical shaping of political accuracy surplus had demanded a large club. The new fair club was not the same. Debuting as ", a new standard specifies" the standard a strict verfremdeten dress code had. When opened doors for 9, the Entleerer went the line of the waiting persons going in around and sent everyone, to that with a Jeans or an ugly Espadrillen or shirts except house which can be changed. Once I and some friends waited in accordance with 8:45 to 2' after the midnight, which spends a whole hour before the line, while the Entleerer, those in the girls in reference equipments or the types, was the friends of the owner or was left the people, which were the IP-LISTED on, etc. etc. etc..... toward the end, we the free lights Drink/cover doorman for the weapon production seized (possessed by the same society). Through seizes me want to say word by word. It will give us three, and my friend and me a grasp to have seized everyone just, in order to bury it in the free beverages in the other place. I upward terminated at the standard only twice during its career to lead in order to take once some friends, after they were too much drunk, in order to the house the ram-ramming eight and once, those the last year with Halloween, where she was packed up in such a way person within shift could. If it were opened, I had planned the fate of the new club with the renversante accuracy. It is a common history, and if they only heard me, it could have been avoided. First on far a new crate of night with the enormous sheet metal music corps opens. It is the hot place which can be gone, it is "in" the quantity, it loads $5,95 for a bottle beer. It is packed up during months, because the people cannot receive enough it. But then after 4 months or 8 months or 18 months he produces himself: another new crate of night opens for the enormous sheet metal music corps, if in the same part of the city or half-way by Edmonton. It is the hot place which can be gone, it is "in" the quantity, it loads $6,50 for a bottle beer. The "new" crate of night the "old" crate of night becomes sudden. Everyone would wait for rather 4 hours in the line to deal in order not to deal with the new place, which 3 minutes in the line wait for, in order with the old place. The quantities decrease/go back. The old place brings its bottles up to $6.75, in order to condemn and deceive persons backwards, but it does not fly. The supply of bars with young hot girls dries upward, and as soon as the dance soil is not packed up by 10:53, everyone packs up upward and goes to the house. Soon the old firm crate of night. And opens later then some months than new crate of night again! It is the hot place which can be gone, it is "in" the quantity, and a beer will set backwards $7,25 for you. The "new" preceding crate from night is messages from yesterday to dance to have to enthuelsen the quantities decreases/goes back, and the final result is that I terminates upward, outside of ever more money to observe in order to take a beer, and in order the hot girls in small tanktops with mutual. Meanwhile waiting one night, which eases the publication, without the cover rarely massif lineup and a considerable number of places itself, in order to rest and drink a beer jug (that cost sadly once $7,50 and you backwards from bons $14 sets now), remains occupies enough, has the massif does not waive and does not swallow of the popularity and can much bar waiter of the money without difficulty of the annual renovations make, which begin upward from a new numbered society screen to conceal the incomes of the legitimate affair men of the angels of hell the new Koerperschaftslogos to plan and outside of a enthuelsen at your bar and left it, those it, because someone itself of other one used the same thing against you, and you reaches more pisser except enormous bandages of the potential customers, by having codes of the onneriekleides could the doormen idiot, who left persons inside by no kind of reasonable means, and which overloaded for the whole customers in the mechanism buy. Is Oh ouais and why these obviously each black man at Edmonton, which does not press daisies, after he spent one night in the occupied bar functioning in the baths of the bar, which on us presses the soaping and hand lotion, and then, by it an end demands, in order to make the work, which completely good a distributor made without complaint?
- Highlights:
- Why does the translator change some $6.75s to $6,75 and leave it, while other occurances either don't change or are changed back?
- Some of the phrase holdovers are funny. Apparently "onneriekleides" seems a sensible German word when translating from French, but not from German: Google doesn't have any occurances of the word either.
- "But then after 4 months or 8 months or 18 months he produces himself: another new crate of night opens for the enormous sheet metal music corps." Enormous sheet metal music corps? I guess that's the "huge fanfare" mentioned in the original.
- "The letters annoyed at Edmonton register and SEEN and a SEEING indicated to practice, and after much pressure and complaint toward the rights of the court people Asians were permitted in the bar masses -, even that one, which looked at thuggish, and which to Entleerer gave creeps." Entleeren means "empty", which describes bouncers fairly well. Its also illuminating how translators remind us that VUE and SEE are not only newspaper competitors, but are also synonyms of each other.
- "I on always remember, how him yesterday were, if the open standard. It was on the building site classical t Barry of the bar of the and rising up rock... The years of the youth were hardly their surname often good-earn the old girls of 16, and always there 17 years were in the abundance. Owing to the miracles to be and the legal protection had 18 and 19 the means of the adults all ages by section 151, who were hardly made by the years of the youth, a paradies for types" This actually sounds like the sort of thing Matthew Good's books would contain, including the subject matter.
- "The "new" preceding crate from night is messages from yesterday to dance to have to enthuelsen the quantities decreases/goes back, and the final result is that I terminates upward, outside of ever more money to observe in order to take a beer, and in order the hot girls in small tanktops with mutual." That sounds dirty even with the wrong German words tossed in. Especially since enthülsen means "to husk" or "to shuck". That makes me want to mutual some tanktops and terminates upward!
- "those in the girls in reference equipments or the types, was the friends of the owner or was left the people, which were the IP-LISTED on, etc. etc. etc..... toward the end, we the free lights Drink/cover doorman for the weapon production seized (possessed by the same society)" Those wacky Germans make everything sound war-like, even stealing coupons! And what does the IP-LISTED bit mean? Some sort of software glitch? Is it possible to notice a software glitch when dealing with the hilarious inaccuracies of babelfish?
