Thursday, August 06, 2009

The Gettysburg Address: Fun with Translation Party

This is part four of the continuing series of Gettysburg Address posts.  I just came across a clever website called Translation Party.  This site takes an English phrase and repeatedly translates back and forth between English and Japanese until it reached "Equilibrium" -- i.e. the translation is constant going back and forth.  I decided to give it the Gettysburg Address as input.  Below is the result:


Before our ancestors and the score function, the annual fair has been created under the leadership of the continent. [source]

Civil war and now is a big country, other countries or individuals, can withstand long-term test. We are paying a great battle field of war. His life in the country, the last resting place is only part of the field. I'm not completely conform to the truth.
[source]
However, most of us - - no need to worry about - and is dedicated to the ground and, to dedicate the time. SHITASHI, these brave souls in this battle, the power of God and death, poor people are grateful.  [source]  This bill is the length of the world, it can not be forgotten. If anything, the unfinished work is the address of our lives in the past. [source]  Rather, we are still working on this issue - is dedicated to honor the dead, the last full measure is to increase the commitment [source] -- waste of death, murder - the people in this country a new birth of freedom in the death of God, in order to solve the world - people and governments. [source]
The last sentence needed to be split up to fit in Translation Party.  Please share any hilarious results you get in the comments.

6 comments:

  1. "This bill is the length of the world"

    I got a never-ending loop:
    "please sir, may i poison your delicious souffle?"

    turns into:

    I'm the flavor souffle can poison?

    Can I taste poison souffle?

    Then it loops:


    I can taste the poison souffle?

    I can taste the souffle is a poison?

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  2. "This bill is the length of the world" - What did this start as?

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  3. I can''t get equilibrium on any of the Gettysburg Address, but Yoni's souffle poison does reach equilibrium. I wonder if the results are time-dependent.

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  4. Also, "No quarter asked, none given" immediately converges on "Bareknuckled asked."

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  5. "No quarter asked, none given" when i ran this i got an infinite loop alternating between "Pitilessness questions" and "Questions pitilessness"
    http://translationparty.com/tp/#280510

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  6. for mine at least you need to run it without quotes to get tehe infinite loop, heres the link:
    http://translationparty.com/tp/#299404

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