Fun With Babelfish+Dialectizer

[mobo85]

“Fun with Babelfish” has been around for a while on this board and other places. Now, I thought that a second step could be added, with the also funny Dialectizer. Take a piece of text, translate into a foriegn language, bring it back into English, and add a wacky dialect! It’s the biggest waste of time since the all-day Gigli marathon!

In tribute of Paul Henning, his classic composition The Ballad of Jed Clampett from English to Japanese to English to Redneck:

At last, fum th’ crude oil which bubbles, came when shootin’ in th’ grub wif respeck t’an’ is it comes on th’ 1st thet fambly Jed which is maintained pore mountaineer gave an’ is shown corncernin’ th’ varmint mah sto’y then wif him, th’ lan’ hears. As fo’ oil, thet it is. Brown of black gold an’ Texas. Th’ follerin’ ethnic cestom earlier dexcripshun of th’ relative has known th’ large magnate of Jed whar yo’ who gush fo’th is old, "thar of Jed emppy transferrin’/changin’! Fry mah hide! “As fo’ them” Califo’nia yo’! Fry mah hide! "So they who said thet it is th’ place whar it is right stacked th’ load on th’ track/truck, moved t’Mary Lou. As fo’ th’ hill, thet it is. Pool, cinemacko’.

[bleach]

We had fun with babelfish a couple of years ago in this thread.

I posted this back then but will post it again. This is from a classic 1998 post from Usenet’s rec.humor.oracle.d and alt.humor.best-of-usenet.

Subject: Re: Likeness of Oracle? Lisa? Og?
From: (Jeff Lee)
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d

(Panther) wrote:
>
> Oh, lord, I guess I’m going to hell now. Eliza impersonators and cascades
> and brSff and Texans barbequeing pigs wasn’t enough, we had to have people
> feeding random stuff through the Babelfish too. I feel sorry for the
> first well-intentioned newbie that gets a Babelfish-translated question.

Well, somebody’s gotta do it, so what the heck. Save a spot for me
near the fire, Panther…

German: How much would wood clamp a forest waldmurmeltier, if a
forest waldmurmeltier could clamp wood?

Italian: How much wood in the bloccherebbe mandrel a North American
beaver, if a North American beaver could block the wood in
the mandrel?

Portugese: How much it works with wood a woodchuck would launch, if a
woodchuck could launch the wood?

Spanish: How much wood one marmota would throw, if one marmota could
throw the wood?

French: no_translation
And finally, English to Spanish to English to Portugese to English to
Italian to English to German to English:

How much play a North American beaver of the wood, if a North
American beaver could play the wood?

Oddly, even that won’t translate into French. Perhaps The Question is
simply impossible to express in French? Is French, then, the Perfect
Language?

And strangely enough, The Question won’t translate to convergence in
German – it just keeps adding the word “forest”. After a few
iterations, I ended up with:

How much would wood a forest clamp the forest forest
waldwaldmurmeltier forest, if a forest waldmurmeltier could
clamp forest forest forest wood?

[Governor_Quinn]

The link to the Dialectizer is not working.

[mobo85]

ah put in th’ wrong address. This hyar one sh’d wawk! Fry mah hide!! Fry mah hide! (The site now sells T-shirts which reads “The Dialectizer: Fry mah hide! Fry mah hide!” That’s pretty funny.)

[Governor_Quinn]

A link to a familar sight