Trans-Tull-ations

[Nonfatman]

Okay, here's a new game. Select a passage from Tull, then go to a site called babelfish and translate that passage from English to another language, and then from that language back into English. The result is guaranteed to be a lot of fun.

For example, the first verses of Aqualung, translated from English to Portuguese, and then from Portuguese back into English, produces pure poetry:

Sitting down in the bank of park, girls eyeing with intention me. The Snot is functioning below of its nose, greasy fingers that spot shabbily the clothes.

Translating the same passage from English to Japanese, and then back to English yields this lyrical gem:

The girl of the attention which uses the bad intention where it sits down in the bench of the park. Snot that nose, is running under the finger where the oil which it is accustomed to painting in ragged clothing is many.

Here is the Babelfish link. There are plenty of lyrics and languages to choose from, so give it a whirl. It's yet another fun way to kill an entire afternoon!

babelfish.yahoo.com/

Jeff

[Fullfrontalbuddha]

Oh father high in heaven -- smile down upon your son
whose busy with his money games -- his women and his gun.
Oh Jesus save me!

English > Dutch > French > German > English

Oh in the sky was employed on your son to smile more élevémentvater under it, that with its geldspelen the women and its cannon to be. Oh Jesus saves me!

At least mildly amusing.

[TM]

Great thread. This should be fun. ;D

[jrpipik]

English:
The minstrel in the gallery looked down upon the smiling faces. He met the gazes, observed the spaces between the old men's cackle.

To Japanese and back:
The wandering minstrel of the gallery saw on the surface of smile. As for him old men' The space between it met to the look which is observed; The calling voice of s.

(I like "the calling voice of s")

[jrpipik]

Through long December nights we talk in words of rain or snow,
while you, through chattering teeth, reply and curse us as you go.
Why not spare a thought this day for those who have no flame
to warm their bones at Christmas time?
Say Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow.

English to Japanese and back:
As for us, passing by the tooth which echoes, when it goes with word of the rain or the snow, simultaneously, response you speak with the December long night, denounce us. Why, this day thought for the person who does not have the flame which warms their bones at the time of Christmas you do not have to economize? Be the crow of the jack frost and the hood attachment.

[TM]

lol. I have to get myself one of those hood attachments. ;D

[Nonfatman]

Apr 11, 2011 10:59:04 GMT -5 jrpipik said:

Through long December nights we talk in words of rain or snow,
while you, through chattering teeth, reply and curse us as you go.
Why not spare a thought this day for those who have no flame
to warm their bones at Christmas time?
Say Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow.

English to Japanese and back:
As for us, passing by the tooth which echoes, when it goes with word of the rain or the snow, simultaneously, response you speak with the December long night, denounce us. Why, this day thought for the person who does not have the flame which warms their bones at the time of Christmas you do not have to economize? Be the crow of the jack frost and the hood attachment.

That's hysterical, Jim, and so was the one you did for Minstrel in the Gallery. Funny stuff!

Jeff

[Rrrrrrrray]

O man that is so choice. I recall Dave Rees did something like that some years back, maybe alot of years. I have to believe Ian would get a real kick out of that were it attached to the group of questions, just, Oi, Ian, dig this.

[jrpipik]

Don't want to be a fat man,
people would think that I was
just good fun.
Would rather be a thin man,
I am so glad to go on being one.
Too much to carry around with you,
no chance of finding a woman who
will love you in the morning and all the night time too.

English to Japanese and back:
The exactly good pleasure where the people we would like to be the person of fat quality, think that there was I. On the other hand be a thin person, as for me continuing the fact that they are one years old, it is very delightful. Chance of the thing which excessively finds the woman whom it should carry with you it is not morning and all nights it loves.

[Rrrrrrrray]

Omg, how good is that, particularly the opening line, I really do believe Ian needs to see this.

[Nonfatman]

Apr 13, 2011 11:12:09 GMT -5 Rrrrrrrray said:

Omg, how good is that, particularly the opening line, I really do believe Ian needs to see this.

It's nice to see you and Jim having some fun with these. The results are usually hilarious!

Jeff

[jrpipik]

On an episode of the late lamented News Radio TV show station owner Jimmy James wrote his memoirs, Capitalist Lion Tamer. The book flopped in America but the translation was a huge hit in Japan. Hoping to get a similar reaction back home, the book was translated back into English to interesting effect.



Which is why I like to use Japanese and back so much.

[jrpipik]

An experiment to see if anybody gets close to the original.

English (all contractions expanded as they confuse babelfish):
…your wise men do not know how it feels to be thick as a brick.

To Chinese and back:
… your sage knew how it did feel was the thick achievement brick.

To traditional Chinese and back:
… your sage did not know how it did feel is the thick achievement brick.

To Dutch and back:
… your indicate do not know how it if brick feels dik its.

To French and back:
… your wise do not know it feels to be thick like brick.

To German and back:
… your wise men can, it believe, in order to be strong as brick.

To Greek and back:
… your wise men persons they do not know how it feels in order to he is thick as brick.

To Italian and back:
… your your men tests do not know think for being often like fire-brick.

To Japanese and back:
… your wise man does not know that how you feel because it is thick as a brick.

To Korean and back:
…the person who you is wise does not know in order for it to be thick with the brick feel how.

To Portuguese and back:
… its wise men do not know feel to be thick as a brick.

To Russian and back:
… your wise men do not can as it they feel, that there will be the thickness as brick.

To Spanish and back:
… their wise men do not know feels to be heavy like brick.

[Nonfatman]

Apr 14, 2011 7:05:32 GMT -5 jrpipik said:

An experiment to see if anybody gets close to the original.

English (all contractions expanded as they confuse babelfish):
…your wise men do not know how it feels to be thick as a brick.

To Chinese and back:
… your sage knew how it did feel was the thick achievement brick.

To traditional Chinese and back:
… your sage did not know how it did feel is the thick achievement brick.

To Dutch and back:
… your indicate do not know how it if brick feels dik its.

To French and back:
… your wise do not know it feels to be thick like brick.

To German and back:
… your wise men can, it believe, in order to be strong as brick.

To Greek and back:
… your wise men persons they do not know how it feels in order to he is thick as brick.

To Italian and back:
… your your men tests do not know think for being often like fire-brick.

To Japanese and back:
… your wise man does not know that how you feel because it is thick as a brick.

To Korean and back:
…the person who you is wise does not know in order for it to be thick with the brick feel how.

To Portuguese and back:
… its wise men do not know feel to be thick as a brick.

To Russian and back:
… your wise men do not can as it they feel, that there will be the thickness as brick.

To Spanish and back:
… their wise men do not know feels to be heavy like brick.

Jeff

[TM]

As for retreat of the rubber when the last wave takes the cover of up-to-date method, end of the play is sounded simultaneously.

[jrpipik]

I think I understand this as well as I do the original:

It slides with the skating which it slides with skating, with the ice whose new day is thin slide with skating.