# Babel Fish Translator Lyric Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 30, 2007, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055 "2007-05-30T13:12:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/21 "2007-05-30T13:55:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Baffle]  
Leaffan - yes.

It is a good girl, likes their Jesus love mummy, and America likewise is a good girl, ’ the horses pazzeschi boyfriend of love of Elvis of period and its even.

English - Italian - French - German - English  
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Free Fallin’ - Tom Petty

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**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/22 "2007-05-30T14:06:22Z")

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Almost complete garbage:

Steve in lower part of trgme’ low-end Ain’t No. In edge method in the lower part of the road under being cautious, sound will hang the voc4es this it foot and the expectation of hazard them it it thin machine gun method them, it it is it wait them whom it waits on end of the meaning of a passage your headquarters which the sound tears but it walks in plunger sound hit

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/23 "2007-05-30T14:06:42Z")

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Wow, this one really went through the meat grinder!

English to German to French to English:

> [@](#):
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> The world is turned and of the white illustrations in a sector empties  
> your beginnings of love which modify to the bottom  
> better fallin ’ your Yeah melody, you, reached for ring gilded the  
> range for skies the baby, precisely extends your wings
> 
> us strongly and strongly high  
> right assembles maintenance  
> us is received higher and higher  
> holidays all

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/24 "2007-05-30T14:06:50Z")

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English -\> Spanish -\> English

> [@](#):
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> night divides the tried day to the tried operation to hide the ignited breakage to traverse to the other ignited lateral breakage to traverse to the other ignited lateral breakage to traverse to the other side,

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/25 "2007-05-30T14:08:18Z")

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English to Italian to French to English to Japanese to English:

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> Is the seat which does not take that the bottom in the paradise and from the town of my request where the grass is green, is elegant with the girl taken?

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**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/26 "2007-05-30T14:09:58Z")

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[QUOTE=Leaffan]  
English -\> Spanish -\> English  
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Break on Through by the Doors.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/27 "2007-05-30T14:10:45Z")

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[QUOTE=Baffle]  
Break on Through by the Doors.  
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Yep.

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**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/28 "2007-05-30T14:11:50Z")

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[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]  
Wow, this one really went through the meat grinder!

English to German to French to English:  
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Dreams by Van Halen?

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**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/29 "2007-05-30T14:15:35Z")

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[QUOTE=Ludovic]  
English to Italian to French to English to Japanese to English:  
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Paradise City by G n’ R

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/30 "2007-05-30T14:20:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Baffle]  
Dreams by Van Halen?  
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That’s it indeed.

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**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/31 "2007-05-30T14:21:33Z")

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On a side note, my google ads are ‘Tsunami fundraising’ and ‘Surplus Miitary Tents’. What the?

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/32 "2007-05-30T14:22:42Z")

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English\>Korean\>English

It soaked and and by losing parents under pebble n wagon wheel ’ cross going out Ul E about getting seasick it is feeling and the dried fish which falls we the waiter bring the tray but it runs and when the beverage hazard calling the room eagerly wing wing distance, there was a multitude whom the ceiling calls far day time compared to hazard and it pushes her face, the first in the ghost who is legitimate, the pale was white shade, to be like this in order to speak a pebble n his talk it was lately

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**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/33 "2007-05-30T14:25:04Z")

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Not a song, but…

_I have seen the better syneno’isi my production that from the Verruecktheit, luminous ysterjko’ verhungerndes has been destroyed and drawn by the noirs plans in the dawn that searches later that is opposed embarrassment…_

English-\>German-\>French-\>Greek-\>English

Still curious about **Trunk’s** submission, although it’s pretty good the way it is.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/34 "2007-05-30T14:25:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]  
English\>Korean\>English

It soaked and and by losing parents under pebble n wagon wheel ’ cross going out Ul E about getting seasick it is feeling and the dried fish which falls we the waiter bring the tray but it runs and when the beverage hazard calling the room eagerly wing wing distance, there was a multitude whom the ceiling calls far day time compared to hazard and it pushes her face, the first in the ghost who is legitimate, the pale was white shade, to be like this in order to speak a pebble n his talk it was lately  
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Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harem

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/35 "2007-05-30T14:27:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Trunk]  
go. . .  
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Seems almost Spiderman’ish?

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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/36 "2007-05-30T14:33:12Z")

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I’ve spoilered the part that completely gives it away.

English–\>Korean–\>English

It see to be few danger being and from in the light here  
we here us  
whom it does now joyfully, multi hundred variant

A mosquito  
my, libidos  
Yea us whom it does now joyfully A black hundred soul ten Oh being U li with three goes out having contagion and there are we who feel

(The last line mixes up elements from throughout the verse, so I just left it unparsed.)

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/37 "2007-05-30T14:40:31Z")

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[QUOTE=Frylock]  
I’ve spoilered the part that completely gives it away.

English–\>Korean–\>English

It see to be few danger being and from in the light here  
we here us  
whom it does now joyfully, multi hundred variant

A mosquito  
my, libidos  
Yea us whom it does now joyfully A black hundred soul ten Oh being U li with three goes out having contagion and there are we who feel

(The last line mixes up elements from throughout the verse, so I just left it unparsed.)  
[/QUOTE]

Good thing for the spoiler, or else I never would have guessed.  
Smells Like Teen Spirit

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/38 "2007-05-30T14:45:45Z")

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English-\>Dutch-\>French-\>English

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> Man’ S brought his wife for that to take her seed it to be able it - oh has them it need has them its life by in top the satisfaction at him the man passes it them it dinner or nourishes anything the capacity shouts them too often only at the time of the night it smokes and drinks and towards the house among all women only vrouwenaftappen comes the man racks does not rack only only the women it remakes your gray hair has faulty them your life lookin effective ’ for are to you an equal interruption are it is you weet you this play it slaps hates you just as soon as in a tijdje and you the pain saw

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**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/39 "2007-05-30T15:16:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Leaffan]  
Seems almost Spiderman’ish?  
[/QUOTE]

let’s try it again with lyrics I clipped instead of tried to remember. . .

Who needs the kwik-gâché by E  
The floors is sticking ruined!  
They do the Dad sicky-gâché!  
Sand eels a bricky-gâché!  
What kwik-gâché by the e is really. doh!  
Who needs the kwik-gâché by E?  
I dooooo!

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/40 "2007-05-30T15:19:28Z")

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[QUOTE=Trunk]  
let’s try it again with lyrics I clipped instead of tried to remember. . .

Who needs the kwik-gâché by E  
The floors is sticking ruined!  
They do the Dad sicky-gâché!  
Sand eels a bricky-gâché!  
What kwik-gâché by the e is really. doh!  
Who needs the kwik-gâché by E?  
I dooooo!  
[/QUOTE]  
Apu’s song “Who Needs the Quickie Mart”?

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