# 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\
**Page:** 5

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/81 "2007-05-30T19:41:09Z")

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[QUOTE=furt]  
Well, now, I am not any hero…  
[/QUOTE]  
Thunder Road _Bruce_

I’ll have mine shortly, but I need to get my answer in so I’ll be allowed to post one. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/82 "2007-05-30T19:43:48Z")

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English -\> Russian -\> English -\> Portuguese -\> French -\> German -\> English

**You adhere me to a dancer closer small letter.  
He counts headlights in the road.  
You will set me down into the screen sheets.  
You have the day had occupied today.**

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/83 "2007-05-30T19:45:58Z")

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On the other hand, maybe I’ll just fix that one up a little and make it into MY next hit.

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/84 "2007-05-30T19:46:30Z")

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This is fun.

[QUOTE=Plynck]  
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…  
[/QUOTE]

Howl?

English-\>Japanese-\>English

I was the exactly poor boy, my storys did not inform my resistance for pocketful of the word which squandered clear it is not majority Ive, any that kind of things say all lie promises and joke, that him it is hard, the hearing where still the person hmmmm hears those which you think, ignore remainder

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/85 "2007-05-30T19:48:19Z")

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[QUOTE=Liberal]  
English -\> Russian -\> English -\> Portuguese -\> French -\> German -\> English

**You adhere me to a dancer closer small letter.  
He counts headlights in the road.  
You will set me down into the screen sheets.  
You have the day had occupied today.**  
[/QUOTE]  
Tiny Dance, by Elton, of course.

Now I get to post 2! 🙂

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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, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/86 "2007-05-30T19:51:19Z")

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[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]  
I was the exactly poor boy,  
[/QUOTE]

The Boxer

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**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/87 "2007-05-30T20:01:58Z")

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Here’s one in two versions:

English -\> Chinese -\> English

2,224 hours go to me to want calm any not to make the there is no place to go to me to want calm to obtain me and hastily invest me to the airport to be hasty in the airplane hastily go in me are crazy I to be unable to control me to be unable to control in front of my brain my finger Oh does not have oh not to have  
or English -\> Japanese -\> English (lines translated individually)

4 hours of 20 of 20 of 20 where I goes settle wanna  
What everywhere making in order to go  
I think that we would like to settle,  
Me place in the profit and the plane surface exactly in the airport  
Before I go abnormally, the rapidity of of the rapidity of rapidity  
As for me my finger where I cannot control my brain cannot be controlled  
It is not no of Ohio state Ohio state

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/88 "2007-05-30T20:03:06Z")

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English to German and back:  
I white a thing or two over her I know that upper section you cry only form Shell leave you to go the road beside it however, if them wish upper section run you past everyone say the good shes lookin and the lady knows its understood you carries their Satins like a lady you receives their way fairly like a child you takes their house and them say possibly, baby take them you thrash and drives you wildly to everyone says the good shes lookin and the lady its understood I knows white a thing or two over her I white that upper section you cry only form Shell leave you to go the road beside her however, if it wishes, to everyone says the good shes past to upper section run you lookin and the lady knows its understood

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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, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/89 "2007-05-30T20:06:47Z")

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[QUOTE=Biggirl]  
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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And I thought this one would be so easy.

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**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/90 "2007-05-30T20:07:26Z")

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[QUOTE=NoCoolUserName]  
Here’s one in two versions:

English -\> Chinese -\> English

2,224 hours go to me to want calm any not to make the there is no place to go to me to want calm to obtain me and hastily invest me to the airport to be hasty in the airplane hastily go in me are crazy I to be unable to control me to be unable to control in front of my brain my finger Oh does not have oh not to have  
or English -\> Japanese -\> English (lines translated individually)

4 hours of 20 of 20 of 20 where I goes settle wanna  
What everywhere making in order to go  
I think that we would like to settle,  
Me place in the profit and the plane surface exactly in the airport  
Before I go abnormally, the rapidity of of the rapidity of rapidity  
As for me my finger where I cannot control my brain cannot be controlled  
It is not no of Ohio state Ohio state  
[/QUOTE]

“I Wanna Be Sedated”

And I’m laughing hard about “It is not no of Ohio state Ohio state.”

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/91 "2007-05-30T20:08:56Z")

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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  
[/QUOTE]

Tom Petty- Free Fallin’

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**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/92 "2007-05-30T20:13:39Z")

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usr1 (English - Greek - French - German - English)

With Fotis outside,  
the dangerous of which here to few are we,  
we amuse you now  
me it feel sot,  
and we are here sticking on  
we amuse ourselves now

usr2 (easy!)  
Rotary Japanese I me think of that the Japanese whom I think really so is turned

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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, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/93 "2007-05-30T20:17:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Captain Socks]  
English to German and back:  
I white a thing or two over her I know that upper section you cry only form Shell leave you to go the road beside it however, if them wish upper section run you past everyone say the good shes lookin and the lady knows its understood you carries their Satins like a lady you receives their way fairly like a child you takes their house and them say possibly, baby take them you thrash and drives you wildly to everyone says the good shes lookin and the lady its understood I knows white a thing or two over her I white that upper section you cry only form Shell leave you to go the road beside her however, if it wishes, to everyone says the good shes past to upper section run you lookin and the lady knows its understood  
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Strutter - Kiss

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/94 "2007-05-30T20:19:01Z")

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**Leaffan** yep.

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Socks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/95 "2007-05-30T20:22:23Z")

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English to Spanish to English:

Now to listen for above Maintained of maquinilla to shave of Shes If she does not obtain to her slice of Shell of the way aside Now shes to you refresh, the fresh movements of the black like a cat If you do not obtain its game can be that you do not do it behind

That’s just one verse.

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/96 "2007-05-30T20:36:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Usram]  
Rotary Japanese I me think of that the Japanese whom I think really so is turned  
[/QUOTE]

Turning Japanese.

English-\>Japanese-\>English

The money escapes. Profit do the good payment and the work where the acceptance of youre is good. Money gas. The cash clamp which loads the thing both hand, make concealment ones. As for new car and excellent caviar you age in fantasy and the っ it is the り, me the football team buy thing think of sickness thing.

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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, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/97 "2007-05-30T20:38:43Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> me the football team buy thing think of sickness thing

Brilliant!

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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, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/98 "2007-05-30T20:39:31Z")

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[QUOTE=Darryl Lict]  
Turning Japanese.

English-\>Japanese-\>English

The money escapes. Profit do the good payment and the work where the acceptance of youre is good. Money gas. The cash clamp which loads the thing both hand, make concealment ones. As for new car and excellent caviar you age in fantasy and the っ it is the り, me the football team buy thing think of sickness thing.  
[/QUOTE]

Money - Floyd

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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, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/99 "2007-05-30T20:47:53Z")

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English-\>Korean-\>English

Obvious, but fun-nnny!!!

> [@](#):
>
> Me in the 99th ground of my block inside the apartment the flesh world inside flight range that time me there was his type of establishment by law characteristic pack and the whole like only it put on the union jack cloth, 5 green onion fortunes which it wins tu from the house to imagine the fact that it stops the guy whom it talks ’ me which sit U of my cloud, you, got the lookin from the window and to fall it talked

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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, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babel-fish-translator-lyric-game/406055/100 "2007-05-30T20:52:13Z")

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[QUOTE=Hugh Jass]  
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  
[/QUOTE]

No guesses?

It’s Easy (like sunday morning) by the Commodores.

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