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.
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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.

The Gettysburg Address: More Fun with Google

This is part three of the continuing series of Gettysburg Address posts (see here and here). I came across a nifty little online tool [link] which automatically searches Google. You type a few words into a box and "the system will search for this sentence at Google, find the next word and print that. Then it will remove the first word of the search string, add the found word and repeat." I wanted to see how good Google is at finding the Gettysburg Address.
Google is actually pretty bad at it. Although it always gets "four score and seven years ago," but then rapidly decays into gibberish. Part of the problem is a Christian rock band called Relient K and their album "Five Score and Seven Years Ago." Typically after the word "ago" "k" appears, and that blows it apart.
Thus, if you start with the feeder phrase "four score and seven years ago our" things pick up. It is able to accurately reproduce the first sentence of the speech. Then it gets distracted by the Declaration of Independence. And then goes on to produce lots of gibberish:

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However, tack on "fathers" and you still get the Declaration, however, you also get political commentary, advertisements and cooking advice. And, of course, Gibberish:

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You can also get it going in an amusing loop, such as repeating instructions. Try some of the first sentence up to, and not including "our." Or just try "did did," for example. Or try your own favorite speech. I'm looking forward to seeing your results in the comments!

The Gettysburg Address: Fun with Google

I suggested in an earlier post that speech recognition is as much fun as Google's language tools. Just to be sure, the following is Abraham Lincoln's stirring (and now somewhat unintelligible) "Gettysburg Address" as interpereted by multiple iterations through various foreign languages:

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The Gettysburg Address

The following is Abraham Lincoln's stirring "Gettysburg Address" as interpereted by MS Word's speech recognition tool. It's good to know that there's something as much fun as Google's language tools.

Four score and seven years ago and were fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and any kids in a proposition that all men are created equal.

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