# Babel Fish Guessing Game!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-guessing-game/107287>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 4, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-guessing-game/107287 "2002-05-04T20:12:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-guessing-game/107287/1 "2002-05-04T20:12:47Z")

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What has ![Babel Fish](http://babelfish.altavista.com) done this time? To my favorite poem, nonetheless! If you can, determine either the author, the title, or the whole excerpt of the translated text. If you are successful, you get 100 points and a boomerang! For starters, this one’s simple…

We are the music creators  
and we are the dreamers of the dreams.  
Rambling from the single switches of the sea and being based through the flows it desolates to you; Losing the world and forsakers of the world, on which the moon tipsy pale: However we are the motors and agitator of the world, in order always, it seems.

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**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-guessing-game/107287/2 "2002-05-04T20:13:55Z")

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Oops, accidentally hit the submit thread button before I finished my post…argh.

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-guessing-game/107287/3 "2002-05-04T21:35:56Z")

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Arthur O’Shaunessey, _The Music Makers_

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> We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream.  
> Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams.  
> World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams.  
> Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.

You can keep th’ boomerang.

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**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-guessing-game/107287/4 "2002-05-04T22:11:55Z")

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Good job, Ice Wolf. Here are your 100 points. Anyone care to try the next one?

Of Schimpansen look at around pleasant powerful exchange on their role felt, hats and merry outward journey carrying “ook, ook,”, but, roused, they are small infamous bastard and not trifled to be.

This one’s not a poem, but a true 'Doper should get it easily. 🙂