# 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:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/41 "2007-05-30T16:11:49Z")

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English -\> Portugese -\> French -\> German -\> English -\> Japanese -\> English

> [@](#):
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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/42 "2007-05-30T16:34:18Z")

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Here’s a tough one, English -\> Russian -\> English :

> [@](#):
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> My humps, my humps, my likable lumps of lady.

😉

Joe

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/43 "2007-05-30T16:37:52Z")

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English to Dutch to French to Greek to English. The first line survived almost intact, so I’ll spoiler it. The rest is pretty ugly…

This is genuine life? Is Ayto’.i the imagination only? in a slipping of ground, a flight of reality. Hemelen your open eyes, the attitude and you see: I am only bad boy, e’hetaj the essential easy sympathy, because easy Im you come jlevjment, go, little, impossible little. It is the en pa’si perjptw’sej that it imports the provisions in layers of wind effective in with.

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**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/44 "2007-05-30T16:39:43Z")

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Lil’ Mahoney - REM’s “End of the World As We Know It”  
Engl. -\> Port. -\> French -\> Greek -\> Engl.

This I have seen today in in the reception. A glass of wine in in his hand. I have it knows that me I would find with his connection. In in their legs he was a person footloose.  
Engl. -\> Japanese -\> Engl.

Me, first why having remembered in the father who has been asked. I of for the sake of did not know, there were many things.

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/45 "2007-05-30T16:42:19Z")

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[QUOTE=panamajack]  
Lil’ Engl. -\> Port. -\> French -\> Greek -\> Engl.

This I have seen today in in the reception. A glass of wine in in his hand. I have it knows that me I would find with his connection. In in their legs he was a person footloose.  
Engl. -\> Japanese -\> Engl.

Me, first why having remembered in the father who has been asked. I of for the sake of did not know, there were many things.  
[/QUOTE]

Rolling Stones, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and Creedence Clearwater Revival, “Someday Never Comes.”

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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/46 "2007-05-30T16:49:55Z")

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**panamajack** : “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” right?

Here’s mine, English \> Italian \> English:

Where the difficulties are melted as the lemon falls via over the advanced parts of the fireplace that is where you will find it.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/47 "2007-05-30T16:53:57Z")

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[QUOTE=Beadalin]  
**panamajack** : “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” right?

Here’s mine, English \> Italian \> English:

Where the difficulties are melted as the lemon falls via over the advanced parts of the fireplace that is where you will find it.  
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow?

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/48 "2007-05-30T16:55:23Z")

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[QUOTE=Beadalin]  
**panamajack** : “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” right?

Here’s mine, English \> Italian \> English:

Where the difficulties are melted as the lemon falls via over the advanced parts of the fireplace that is where you will find it.  
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow

I’ll post one in a few

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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, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/49 "2007-05-30T16:56:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew]  
English to Dutch to French to Greek to English. The first line survived almost intact, so I’ll spoiler it. The rest is pretty ugly…

This is genuine life? Is Ayto’.i the imagination only? in a slipping of ground, a flight of reality. Hemelen your open eyes, the attitude and you see: I am only bad boy, e’hetaj the essential easy sympathy, because easy Im you come jlevjment, go, little, impossible little. It is the en pa’si perjptw’sej that it imports the provisions in layers of wind effective in with.  
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BoRhap, surviving pretty well under such translation!

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/50 "2007-05-30T16:58:49Z")

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Eng to Port to Fr to Eng:

And then is necessary uncompromising, contractor, anything but tranquilizing for the line in…

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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, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/51 "2007-05-30T16:59:10Z")

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

I supported my car in a COP the car the other day. Well, it only sometimes refused o.k. of the life. I affirmed the surplus well my mouth of a little in operation what I can say.

The chorus gives it away but I can’t help posting it:

And us them small floats on o.k… And us them small floats on in one way or another.

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**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/52 "2007-05-30T17:00:14Z")

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English-\>German-\>French-\>Spanish-\>English

They are not thus. They are not thus. They are not thus closely me. Their friends are if eifersuechtig. They can receive, bad girls.

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/53 "2007-05-30T17:00:55Z")

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Forgot to post one.  
English\>Dutch\>French\>English  
Manner of affections there now, absolutely no No absolutely no manner No does not live I without u. I lives not without u. living without u. I wants free be. I remain. I also remain you and you and you are you gonna you of me keep…

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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/54 "2007-05-30T17:03:05Z")

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Yes, it was “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Yay!

**Ludovic** , is that Modest Mouse’s “Float On”?

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**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/55 "2007-05-30T17:03:49Z")

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English to Dutch to French to Italian to English:

To only slip of the posterior part, the jack. To make a new one, Stan slowly. The decrease of the key, Lee. The free war me.

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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/56 "2007-05-30T17:05:18Z")

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Ha! I didn’t even look at your spoiler, that’s how brilliant I am. 😉

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**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/57 "2007-05-30T17:09:06Z")

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**anyrose** , that’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.”

Here’s my new one, English \> Portuguese \> French \> English:

Firstly I was being wary that I petrified fasten maintained that bandage I could never not live without you by my side but I spent thus much of nights that bandage of as you fêz me erroneous I grew itself strong learned how to continue

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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, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/58 "2007-05-30T17:22:31Z")

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Bwahahahaha!

and now you it is behind of external space!

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**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/59 "2007-05-30T17:33:22Z")

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

Why in in the world of partial chains in with it would place? I have paid, this I shape that each one i his wishes, his which this wish also fortunately, if I examine in order to I forge my rights this yeah

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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, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/60 "2007-05-30T17:40:26Z")

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[QUOTE=anyrose]  
English to Dutch to French to Italian to English:

To only slip of the posterior part, the jack. To make a new one, Stan slowly. The decrease of the key, Lee. The free war me.  
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50 Ways To leave Your Lover - P. Simon

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