# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**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, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/41 "2003-08-24T18:15:20Z")
Mine: > [@](#): > > was not the possibility of taking walking which there is long to A } the day {. We were, the vagando, really pulled the empty page into time during morning with the shrub and tore; But there is a dinner company, dinner is quick, the outside addition practice which before, (} the mrs {. lead/read), the wind where the ever since winter is cool does and penetrates her so and and the A rain bringing the cloud which is the shadow is the admission impossibility } the now { to be. ---
**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, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/42 "2003-08-24T18:29:46Z")
**Fretful** , that’s _Jane Eyre_, of course. Best opening line ever! “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.” Sets the scene of the entire novel, pretty much, so deliciously understatedly. I’ll be back momentarily with the complete translation and a new scrambling. ---
**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, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/43 "2003-08-24T18:41:21Z")
> [@](#): > > THERE was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. Here’s a new scrambling that might ring a bell or two: > [@](#): > > _you could clear I far away pray to have to have the last straight drug in the pharmones (aphrodisiacs me? of sp?)and – the relative reader of the devout person, pettirosso the R., Glendale, rapidity of > P.S.:Please California, I have need of all the subsidy that hem I take place myself._ > For the coils of arrest, the sweetcheeks, it is “feromoni,” not they “pharmones.” I boys C of the servant not to obtain intimate with the illiterate ones of whóre of the girls, you that you know. ---
**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 24, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/44 "2003-08-24T18:53:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Bosda, would that be the Martian Chronicles? Nope, that would be _War of the Worlds_. I don’t know the full English quote, but it definitely starts off with the statement that there are other mortal intelligences in the Universe, and that we meet them in the early 20th century. There, now I’m balanced, having posted one and solved one. By the way, the “American” in the final mangling of Prospero’s speech seems to have come in somewhere in the English-Korean-English step… It seems to have converted “rebellion” into “American rebellion”, or somesuch. ---
**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 24, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/45 "2003-08-24T19:31:14Z")
If you run your translation through Korean, Japanese or Chinese you will be guaranteed a large amount of gibberish back. Someone once told me it is because of the metaphorical nature of character writing as opposed to phonetic writing. Sounds reasonable to me. ---
**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, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/46 "2003-08-24T19:47:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > \*\*Bosda, would that be the Martian Chronicles? > \*\* BBWWAAAAP! I’m sorry, that answer is _incorrect_ ! Thank you for playing, & here’s a copy of our home game! Plus, Rice-A-Roni, the “San Francisco Treat©”! 😃 🆒 ---
**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, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/47 "2003-08-24T19:50:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > **Nope, that would be _War of the Worlds_. I don’t know the full English quote, but it definitely starts off with the statement that there are other mortal intelligences in the Universe, and that we meet them in the early 20th century.** BLING-BLING-BLING-BLING! THAT IS CORRECT!!! YOU WIN! And your prize is…a copy of our home game! Plus, Rice-A-Roni, the “San Francisco Treat©”! 😃 🆒 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/48 "2003-08-24T19:58:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > \*\*If anyone’s stumped on my last and wants to be unstumped, I’ll offer the hint that it’s Shakespeare. \*\* That’s the end of _Othello,_ right? Gratiano, keep the house, And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor, For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor, Remains the censure of this hellish villain; The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it! Myself will straight aboard: and to the state This heavy act with heavy heart relate. More mangled literature…this one went through French, German, Italian, and Portuguese before becoming properly unrecognizable. > [@](#): > > That thing must hour give form to the king? It must sottopong? The king has: he must be indicated? The king is finished: He must lose the name of the king? the name of the god, goes calm: Dò my jewels for everything to branelli, palates wonderful for a Einsiedlerei, allegros dresses mines for dress of a Almsmans, my cups, of that of the average they are illustrated outside for a wooden flagstone, sceptre of the mine for a team of employees of the direction of the valve of slidegate of the micrometer, of my subjects for a connection that saint of the cut and mine great kingdom for the small cases, that it is, serious little small, overthrows incomprensibile; Or I will embed definitive direction of the commerce of the local land, where the feet they I step on in May of the subjects of the hour in the hour in of it to sovereigns right-handers in the road of the king,: For the hour of st in my step of the heart ', during it is made e, a time fossa, why not in my head? ---
**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, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/49 "2003-08-24T23:58:14Z")
**Katisha** : ding ding ding. You win … let’s see here … Turtle Wax. ---
**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/50 "2003-08-25T01:34:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Katisha \* > \*\*That’s the end of _Othello,_ right? > That thing must hour give form to the king? It must sottopong? The king has: he must be indicated? The king is finished: He must lose the name of the king? the name of the god, goes calm: Dò my jewels for everything to branelli, palates wonderful for a Einsiedlerei, allegros dresses mines for dress of a Almsmans, my cups, of that of the average they are illustrated outside for a wooden flagstone, sceptre of the mine for a team of employees of the direction of the valve of slidegate of the micrometer, of my subjects for a connection that saint of the cut and mine great kingdom for the small cases, that it is, serious little small, overthrows incomprensibile; Or I will embed definitive direction of the commerce of the local land, where the feet they I step on in May of the subjects of the hour in the hour in of it to sovereigns right-handers in the road of the king,: For the hour of st in my step of the heart ', during it is made e, a time fossa, why not in my head? > \*\* Richard II : What must the king do now? Must he submit? The king shall do it. Must he be deposed? The king shall be contented. Must he lose The name of king? A God’s name let it go. I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman’s gown My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My sceptre for a palmer’s walking staff and my large kingdom for a little grave, A little, little grave, an obscure grave. Or I’ll be buried in the king’s highway Some way of common trade, where subject’s feet May hourly trample on their sovereign’s head; For on my heart they tread now whilst I live, And buried once, why not upon my head? Since no one’s gotten the one I posted before, I’ll re-post, slightly less garbled, and add a hint. Broad guards it with the sleep and the expenditure which is, to awake on slow. I believe however my fate, 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. It’s a poem by a well-known twentieth century American poet. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/51 "2003-08-25T02:27:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by masonite \* > \*\*Katisha: ding ding ding. You win … let’s see here … Turtle Wax. \*\* Yay! Just what I’ve always wanted! 😉 And **cromulent** nailed mine, too. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/52 "2003-08-25T05:39:06Z")
The following may have been a bit too obscure of a beginning since it hasn’t been answered yet. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LilyoftheValley \* > \*\*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. > \*\* So I’ll add a big(!) hint. This is the first paragraph of the introduction to a main character. I like how the Babel Fish translation mangles the name, and has the most random non-English words. > [@](#): > > George Hayduke of Washington, special forces of Vietnam, had Groll. (For these boys feed on the surface upper you there than their dumdums, with thirty series the second with all the einstuerzen which are placed that it moved: chickens, Bueffel of water, rice farmers, journalists of the newspaper, American, doctors of green Baretts the free and traditional desert – that which) and a year other than collected vietcong breathed éamment, after two years in Dschungelliefern of the babies of Gebirgsbewohners and the helicopters did not decrease to find longer in American south-west than he had remembered, him, as him did not remember longer, the sky pellucid, him in the dreams Of the things somebody or something modified. Although, “the techno-industrielle of techno of the rhétorique” is still my favorite BabelPhrase. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/53 "2003-08-25T05:45:24Z")
The following may have been a bit too obscure of a beginning since it hasn’t been answered yet. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LilyoftheValley \* > \*\*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. > \*\* So I’ll add a big(!) hint. This is the first paragraph of the introduction to a main character. I like how the Babel Fish translation mangles the name, and has the most random non-English words. > [@](#): > > George Hayduke of Washington, special forces of Vietnam, had Groll. (For these boys feed on the surface upper you there than their dumdums, with thirty series the second with all the einstuerzen which are placed that it moved: chickens, Bueffel of water, rice farmers, journalists of the newspaper, American, doctors of green Baretts the free and traditional desert – that which) and a year other than collected vietcong breathed éamment, after two years in Dschungelliefern of the babies of Gebirgsbewohners and the helicopters did not decrease to find longer in American south-west than he had remembered, him, as him did not remember longer, the sky pellucid, him in the dreams Of the things somebody or something modified. Although, “the techno-industrielle of techno of the rhétorique” is still my favorite BabelPhrase. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/54 "2003-08-25T05:51:53Z")
The following may have been a bit too obscure of a beginning since it hasn’t been answered yet. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LilyoftheValley \* > \*\*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. > \*\* So I’ll add a big(!) hint. This is the first paragraph of the introduction to a main character. I like how the Babel Fish translation mangles the name, and has the most random non-English words. > [@](#): > > George Hayduke of Washington, special forces of Vietnam, had Groll. (For these boys feed on the surface upper you there than their dumdums, with thirty series the second with all the einstuerzen which are placed that it moved: chickens, Bueffel of water, rice farmers, journalists of the newspaper, American, doctors of green Baretts the free and traditional desert – that which) and a year other than collected vietcong breathed éamment, after two years in Dschungelliefern of the babies of Gebirgsbewohners and the helicopters did not decrease to find longer in American south-west than he had remembered, him, as him did not remember longer, the sky pellucid, him in the dreams Of the things somebody or something modified. Although, “the techno-industrielle of techno of the rhétorique” is still my favorite BabelPhrase. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/55 "2003-08-25T05:53:30Z")
Whoa!!! The hamsters sure are rowdy tonight! I have no idea how that got posted 3 times so far apart. Sorry folks. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@The\_Ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Ryan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/56 "2003-08-25T06:40:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sajwalke \* > \*\*She is this person. Which this range exterior concerns Gruens Soylent Has anyone guessed this one and I missed it? Because it seems rather obvious: Soylent Green. neutron star: the song of which you speak- it wasn’t sung by a band from Liverpool by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979/57 "2003-08-25T14:48:23Z")
Here is a quotes I put through the grinder: He carries not shoe polish he obtained finger the soccer of the mermelada The obtained monkey it touches he unlike the queue to cook that The says I know it, you A thing knows me I am able to say you are you obtained to be freed Gathers at this time on me [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/babelfish-literature-game/196979.md?page=2)