# Fun with Google Translate.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659 "2014-03-14T00:27:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/1 "2014-03-14T00:27:45Z")
I was messing around with the Thai keyboard on my iPad (a freind at work is from Thailand and she’s been teaching me a little bit about the written language) and got an interesting bot of gibberish when I pasted it into google translate, so I figured, what the heck… Post some text from a language you do not speak or understand, bung it into google translate, and post the translation to your native tongue, see if anything interesting happens… Like this; นพึไท\_ขีสหาๅๆสพวภเเบพบๆา\_ะขะสฯภะนพบนำดจขฯคัญ๋๊ญ๋ฌฯบำยำสา\_กาต\_กต่ำดจขาำดนขทๆกขนท๓ะขพาตข\_ทะตจ Translates to; The genie liberated \_ Ride Haๅ a preview to Saturday’s discovery was the \_ will Kha states uth found the knife’ll’s important develop Sean’s Bam salad for \_-due \_ a lower edge Kam’s side with. Hair removal with the 3 will take the text Stewart \_ pan. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/2 "2016-10-28T03:12:55Z")
Looks like this is the most recent “Fun with Google Translate” thread so I’ll just leave this here. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rwOH3YsraNs/hqdefault.jpg "Google Translate Sings: "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwOH3YsraNs) ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/3 "2016-10-28T06:52:59Z")
Are there any automated translation systems that still render “Out of sight, out of mind” as “Invisible idiot”? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/4 "2016-10-28T14:07:33Z")
Go online and find a joke, about ten lines long. Translate that into Thai, and then the Thai version into Swedish, then to Urdu, then to Japanese, then to Polish, then back to English. See if it’s still funny. I’ve tried this and I suspect that the translator is designed to translate Thai–\>Polish into English first, then English to Polish, and not directly from Thai to Polish. So this would not really be as amusing as one would expect it to be. The English versions in between would keep un-corrupting the drift. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/5 "2016-10-28T19:34:44Z")
Old apocryphal story from long before Google translate. Automated translation computer took the following in English: “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” translated it to Russian, then back to English, and got: “the vodka is good but the meat is spoiled.” ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/6 "2016-10-28T19:35:55Z")
Here is a contest run by the Washington Post asking people to do just this. These are real results. > **[Style Invitational Week 977 results: Twisting the tongues of Google Translate](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/style-invitational-week-977-results-twisting-the-tongues-of-google-translate/2012/07/19/gJQAaynDwW_story.html)** > > in which we repeated a contest from 2004 to see how much Google’s translation tool had improved: As we did then, we asked you to have Google translate some English passage of your choice into another... ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/7 "2016-10-29T02:39:12Z")
There used to be a website that would do this all in one step. You entered the message, hit the button, and it ran the message through several languages and back to English. [An old thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398166) Sadly, that site closed years ago, and I haven’t found a good replacement. ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/8 "2016-10-29T06:44:36Z")
A few weeks ago my husband was for some reason watching a video of Waylon Jennings doing MacArthur Park, subtitled in Portuguese. No way that’s not going to look like a bad Google translation. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/9 "2016-11-05T20:49:45Z")
You used to be able to get Google Translate to beatbox by pasting some gibberish and having it say it in German, but it doesn’t seem to work anymore. It depended on a male voice to recite it, and all I get are female voices now. FWIW, here’s the gibberish: pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/10 "2016-11-06T00:55:32Z")
> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk Try that in Albanian or Esperanto. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-with-google-translate/683659/11 "2016-11-06T05:00:06Z")
Bài này mô tả mang nặng tính ‘thủ thuật điều hành’ của PVC nói riêng dẫn đến việc thua lỗ, thất thoát hàng nghìn tỷ đồng trong thời gian 2011-2013 và của PVN nói chung. This article describes laden ‘operating procedures’ of PVC in particular result in the loss and loss of thousands of billion during 2011-2013 and PVN general. Банки рекомендуют клиентам не пользоваться банкоматами в тихих углах на отшибе и избегать отирающихся неподалеку подозрительных субъектов. Banks recommend that customers do not use ATMs in the quiet corners of the suburbs and close to avoid wipe them suspicious subjects. Fun: translated the Vietnamese into Russian and then into English: В данной статье описывается Ладена операционных процедур »ПВХ в частности, в результате потери и потери тысяч миллиардов в течение 2011-2013 годов и вообще PVN. This article describes the operational procedures Laden "PVC in particular as a result of the loss and the loss of thousands of billion during 2011-2013 and all the PVN. And the Russian into Vietnamese, then into English: Các ngân hàng khuyên khách hàng không sử dụng máy ATM tại các góc yên tĩnh của vùng ngoại ô và gần để tránh xóa sạch chúng đối tượng khả nghi. Banks recommend that customers do not use ATMs in the quiet corner of the suburbs and close to avoid wipe them suspicious objects. OK, that wasn’t interesting.