# Fun With Babelfish+Dialectizer **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-babelfish-dialectizer/296504 "2005-03-27T22:30:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-babelfish-dialectizer/296504/1 "2005-03-27T22:30:01Z")
“Fun with [Babelfish](http://babelfish.altavista.com)” 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](http://www.rinkworks.com/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’. ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-babelfish-dialectizer/296504/2 "2005-03-27T23:22:10Z")
We had fun with babelfish a couple of years ago in [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=179665&page=1&pp=50) 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? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-babelfish-dialectizer/296504/3 "2005-03-27T23:40:06Z")
The link to the Dialectizer is not working. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-babelfish-dialectizer/296504/4 "2005-03-27T23:51:28Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-babelfish-dialectizer/296504/5 "2005-03-28T00:13:12Z")
[A link to a familar sight](http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi?dialect=cockney&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.straightdope.com)