Ah Sharks

Posted on June 25, 2007 in Wastes of Time

They say that a rating can kill you:

Mingle² – Online Dating

The Streetcar was Late Delicately

Posted on June 24, 2007 in Wastes of Time

A few days ago I amused/bemused my readership with some selections of statements concerning bipolar disorder translated from English to Chinese and back to English. The results were sometimes comic, sometimes mystifying.

Today, I applied the Babelfish translation engine to the Twitter public timeline where your chance to see something by someone you know is negligible. Twitter isn’t much of a melting pot, more of a pan for a ragout of many different languages. I focused on Japanese utterances. Here are the mystifying results:

• When you have asked reaching it had distantly, it was different
• When you see, you do not know in various ways. Switching cost so high
• Persevering, don’t you think?! Me this week there is inventory, it is with it perseveres
• With with
• It is painful, discernment Akito house right one one favor? Engaging in right main point?
• After changing into this address, using completely in the register or, also the annoyance mail coming until now to without being. It was done in someone the oak and others
• English study meeting it waits for the fact that it starts
• Rain. The streetcar was late delicately
• Grotesque phenomenon attacks 3 year 2 set, ‘ raising to the teaching platform of legend!
• When it is riding in the bus, the preschool girl who wears the leather shoes “the delicate part was said, the ゆ densely and” with showed the arm which can be stuck to the mosquito to the mother.
• As for the stomach however it is not digested, start of job. Today one day cancer… it is drowsy cripes?

Stemming from sight, outside brains

Posted on June 20, 2007 in Wastes of Time

I don’t know if you’ve ever come across the Babelfish translation engine. It’s a great way to waste time plugging in your favorite English sayings and seeing how they come out when you translate them from English to Chinese and back again. For example that last sentence returns from Mao’s tongue as “How is this huge way wave waste time blocks the English view which likes in you and sees them to come out when you translate them again from English to Chinese and back.”

Get the idea? Let’s try a few phrases common to this and similar blogs.

I suffer from bipolar disorder.

I suffer the double pole to be chaotic.

Pardon me, but I am hallucinating again.

Forgives me, but I appear the illusion again.

What did you do with my lithium?

What have you made and my lithium?

I think the Pope wants me dead.

I thought the pope wants my dead.

My analyst told me that I was right out of my head. (Joni Mitchell)

My analyst told me, me correctly outside mine head.

I hear singing when there’s no one there, I smell blossoms and the trees are bare. All day long I seem to walk on air. I wonder why, I wonder why.

I hear to sing when does not have there, I smell blossom and the tree am bare. I as if am complacent all day. Why do I want to know, why I do want to know.

Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Vividly describes oneself in a boat in a river and the tangerine tree and the orange jam sky. Some person tells you, you quite slowly replied, girl and kaleidoscope eye.*

Out of sight, out of mind.

Stemming from sight, outside brains

Go ahead. Try some of your own.

*Now that sounds like an acid trip!