# Babelfish Literature Game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979 "2003-08-22T18:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/21 "2003-08-23T15:09:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tusculan \* > \*\* > The single Made waves like the cloud which saw in engagements and high hills óer, like once of me, to push itself, the owner of has, Goldnarcissuses swims; Close to that sea under the trees, agitating and to dance in the Breeze. > \*\* Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a Cloud” : I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/22 "2003-08-23T15:16:31Z")
Yes, that’s perfectly **cromulent**. ---
**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/23 "2003-08-23T15:21:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tusculan \* > \*\*Yes, that’s perfectly **cromulent**. \*\* Thank you. By the way, **Masonite** translated mine correctly a few posts back (the Wyatt poem.) Ok, here’s a new one: I invisible a year man. No, I am not has phantom like which they frequented Edgar Allan Poe; NOR I amndt one of his ectoplasms of the Hollywood-film. I has man of the substance, the meat and bone, fiber and the liquids – and edge be that it is even said to cuts has mind. I amndt invisible, I understand, simply because people reject to see me. ---
**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:** [August 23, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/24 "2003-08-23T17:49:24Z")
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Here’s another: The southernmost trees take the strange blood of the fruit in the blood of the sheets in the bodies of the black one by the root, which form the joint in the strange fruit of the southernmost Brise, which hang trees of the pappel ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/25 "2003-08-23T18:34:58Z")
**Biggirl** , is that from _The Sound and the Fury_? It’s been a while since I read that, but it sort of rings a bell. Here’s my entry: > [@](#): > > \_ foot Neptune of Printless pursue diminishing within sand of risk, mountain, ribeiro, he dwarf of Ye of lake gerad what he steal, bite prohibition on the basis of night what would equip in intelligence of place of contact without turn to make mushroom of midnight of Steinbeisser of rains to this and at respect to endanger into danger shoe of unit of crab rabidly it to have come small, time of l what make on marionnette into ye forest, into ye, will what lucky, he hear ye of light of moon of ldemi what make doubly a Ae¢@ the wind of the Gruens twixt huy it American rebellion will be, and what rapiècent and ’ azured the green bulb, in order to peel, and it will make, and by the war of v0ûte, which humans peels that dae of Yag E (automats of the entrance), it is, calls which piece to cry the fact that it adjusts at that one and says to it, but that the master, who he omits himself he is as this risk, that in the sun ye and of noontide. (sequence was English-Chinese-English-Portugese-English-Korean-English-French-German-English, but I probably could have stopped after Portugese). ---
**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:** [August 23, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/26 "2003-08-23T18:46:20Z")
No, it’s not The Sound and the Fury. I thought it would be pretty easy since key phrases did make it through the English-Spanish-English-French-English-German-English translation. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/27 "2003-08-23T19:08:56Z")
**Biggirl** , yours is the blues song _Strange Fruit_ (sung by Billie Holiday and I assume lots of others). > [@](#): > > Southern trees bear strange fruit, > Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, > Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, > Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Still a chilling song. I’ve got to think a while for a new one. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/28 "2003-08-23T19:15:17Z")
Here we go: > [@](#): > > I am still misled still wild Simpering and wimmere the child who bezaubert become again, am disturbed and me diverting. Hint: it’s a song. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/29 "2003-08-23T20:33:49Z")
Nobody knows mine? Hint: it’s a very famous novella from the mid-1900s. It was made into a movie, and, much later, the title of a song. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/30 "2003-08-24T01:11:31Z")
The opening paragraph of a popular book written in the 1970s: > [@](#): > > If a new one ponticello between two states of the sovereigns of the United States were carried out, is time for the word. For the small flags, the volumes and the techno-industrielle of techno of the rhétorique have extended electronically. For the public address. For bonus fun, identify the three languages (plus English) this went through! ---
**Author:** ![Petrichor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@Petrichor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Petrichor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/31 "2003-08-24T03:34:30Z")
Back in the skin in more October 1918, in the day of the ton that more under the peace and the calm in the complete front side, so that haven poor limited the ton the individual sentence: Everything in the front peace occidental person. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/32 "2003-08-24T04:48:05Z")
**Tusculan** , Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered ---
**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/33 "2003-08-24T04:51:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Petrichor \* > \*\*Back in the skin in more October 1918, in the day of the ton that more under the peace and the calm in the complete front side, so that haven poor limited the ton the individual sentence: Everything in the front peace occidental person. \*\* _All Quiet on the Western Front_, by Erich Maria Remarque. (The last few lines, not the first): He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence : All quiet on the Western Front. Here’s a new one: Broad guards it with the sleep and the expenditure which is, to awake on slow my. I believe however my, who I cannot fear. I learn how too much to go, where I must go. We thought by the feeling. That which does have to know? I hear my sound the dances ear with the ear. Broad guards it with the sleep and the expenditure which is, to awake on slow my. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/34 "2003-08-24T08:23:59Z")
Correct, **amarinth**. Looking over the thread, I see there are quite a number of quotes we haven’t figured out yet: the last posts of **masonite, neutron star, Carnick, Chronos, LilyoftheValley, cromulent**. I’m afraid Chronos’s one is much too far gone to make any sense of, at least to me it is. **neutron star** , yours immediately sounded very familiar. I got a vivid image even with the mangled translation, but unfortunately my memory deserted me after that. Here’s a simple one. I couldn’t get it really very far mangled. > [@](#): > > The snow in mountains has been melted and the rabbit during the several weeks one is dead man, before that we came, the extremity to understand the force of the gravity of our situation. The summer of He?d, that one is died during the ten days, before that it found it, you knows. ---
**Author:** ![sajwalke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@sajwalke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sajwalke)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/35 "2003-08-24T10:28:03Z")
She is this person. Which this range exterior concerns Gruens Soylent moment of the good conversion person! it is our nutrition of the person, who is the processing DTE manufacture industry, which is that one. After the fact that that one maintains, it, which were formed in for lesquel for this as nutrition, that cattles to be. Their letter is 1 and the victory, and which concerns, that TA TA it is braeunt, there. Their letter and as for successful that its and as he is, examine! It Incidentally, I hope I’m not spoiling the ending here, but I thought if someone hadn’t seen it, they wouldn’t get it anyway. Also, is it cheating to go from english to german, then german to french, then french to german, then german to english? Or are we only supposed to use one language + english? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/36 "2003-08-24T11:09:14Z")
Chronos > [@](#): > > \_ foot Neptune of Printless pursue diminishing within sand of risk, mountain, ribeiro, he dwarf of Ye of lake gerad what he steal, bite prohibition on the basis of night what would equip in intelligence of place of contact without turn to make mushroom of midnight of Steinbeisser of rains to this and at respect to endanger into danger shoe of unit of crab rabidly it to have come small, time of l what make on marionnette into ye forest, into ye, will what lucky, he hear ye of light of moon of ldemi what make doubly a Ae¢@ the wind of the Gruens twixt huy it American rebellion will be, and what rapiècent and ’ azured the green bulb, in order to peel, and it will make, and by the war of v0ûte, which humans peels that dae of Yag E (automats of the entrance), it is, calls which piece to cry the fact that it adjusts at that one and says to it, but that the master, who he omits himself he is as this risk, that in the sun ye and of noontide. For some reason, it makes me think of Midsummer Night’s Dream, but I can’t quite figure it out. Am I way off base? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/37 "2003-08-24T11:34:34Z")
An event that takes place once every 60,000 years is happening now. So, this quote is appropriate. > [@](#): > > It not to believe anybody last years of the 19.jahrhunderts that this world was paid attention clearly and narrowly by Intelligenzen which are nevertheless also mortals more largely, as a man and whom his itself; that, while men occupied themselves on their various interests which were studied and studied it, perhaps almost also narrowly, that a man with a microscope the temporary creatures that could study with cloud and in a drop of water multiplied. Men ahead and behind left a satisfaction without end on this ball on their small businesses, serene in their insurance of their business on kingdom. It is possible that infusoria under the microscope it it even thing to make. That sources the human danger, or thoughts of them gave a thought to the oldest worlds of the sector to nobody, for congédier the idea of the life after them only, like impossible or not very probable. It is curious to recall some-of practices of spirit of those left days. At most terrestrial men who were introduced there, themselves could of other men after Mars, perhaps inferior its and prepare, to accomodate a company of missionary. However on the gulf of the sector, to consider an understanding which with our understanding being, while our are with those of the animals which die to which and unsympathetic a considerable and fresh intellect, this mass envious of the eyes drew and slowly and surely their plans against us. And at the twentieth century large Desillusionierung came early. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/38 "2003-08-24T11:53:43Z")
Carnick is presenting the opening lines to PATTON ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/39 "2003-08-24T17:38:37Z")
Bosda, would that be the Martian Chronicles? If anyone’s stumped on my last and wants to be unstumped, I’ll offer the hint that it’s Shakespeare. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/40 "2003-08-24T18:09:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \_ foot Neptune of Printless pursue diminishing within sand of risk, mountain, ribeiro, he dwarf of Ye of lake gerad what he steal, bite prohibition on the basis of night what would equip in intelligence of place of contact without turn to make mushroom of midnight of Steinbeisser of rains to this and at respect to endanger into danger shoe of unit of crab rabidly it to have come small, time of l what make on marionnette into ye forest, into ye, will what lucky, he hear ye of light of moon of ldemi what make doubly a Ae¢@ the wind of the Gruens twixt huy it American rebellion will be, and what rapiècent and ’ azured the green bulb, in order to peel, and it will make, and by the war of v0ûte, which humans peels that dae of Yag E (automats of the entrance), it is, calls which piece to cry the fact that it adjusts at that one and says to it, but that the master, who he omits himself he is as this risk, that in the sun ye and of noontide. Prospero in _The Tempest_: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid, Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm’d The noontide sun, call’d forth the mutinous winds, And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault Set roaring war. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979.md?page=3)