# Google Translator Telephone game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [May 20, 2014, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794 "2014-05-20T03:25:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794/41 "2014-06-08T02:38:36Z")

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It’s important to me to risk cities. I know and difede is designed to be frank about it, and I’m afraid I can not allow to use the shower enclosure.

english  
afrikaans  
javanese  
yiddish  
finnish  
greek  
arabic  
malay  
welsh  
hindi  
zulu  
english

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794/42 "2014-06-08T08:41:09Z")

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I’m crazy, but I’m working in my corruption, drugs, alcohol, violence, and all the time.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. (Hunter S. Thompson)

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794/43 "2014-06-08T08:53:30Z")

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Oh, Lord, and large,  
Amber waves of grain,  
He is the King  
It is not easy to build.  
Thank you! Thank you! Oh, God, I thank God and how  
Corona’s mother  
Create a wall?

[spoiler]O beautiful for spacious skies,  
For amber waves of grain,  
For purple mountain majesties  
Above the fruited plain!  
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,  
And crown thy good with brotherhood  
From sea to shining sea!

Surprisingly the “amber waves of grain” made it intact through fifteen languages. I would have thought that would have been lost in just two or three translations.

But I have no idea how “America! America!” became “Thank you! Thank you!”[/spoiler]

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**Author:** ![Orpington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/cc9497/32.png) [@Orpington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orpington)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794/44 "2014-06-10T05:48:51Z")

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High and close to the heart of the new reality, such a person has not been started, the.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality, closer to the heart.

English-German-Hindi-Korean-Yoruba-French-Hungarian-Greek-Russian-Bengali-English

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2014, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794/45 "2014-06-10T06:14:50Z")

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, Mass. “You”  
"I think,  
And anxious time  
butter  
Marine and Kandahar, in fact,  
CAI life. "

[spoiler]Oh, oh. I put in some Lewis Carroll and I think I broke Google Translate.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,  
“To talk of many things:  
Of shoes and ships and sealing wax  
Of cabbages and kings  
And why the sea is boiling hot  
And whether pigs have wings.”  
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**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794/46 "2014-06-14T22:09:02Z")

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View and samuursan brain

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-translator-telephone-game/688794/47 "2014-06-14T23:37:04Z")

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Legal weekend for me represents the specific purpose of the author and CEO since closed enabled. However, based on the law, and in his career, a lot of work and it follows. Sort allows any insurance representative, irrespective of how the document.

[spoiler]I decided to run some legal fine print through multiple translations. Here’s the original text:

To the extent permitted by law, all other express and implied warranties for this product, including the implied warranties or merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, are hereby disclaimed and excluded. If the applicable law precludes the exclusion of any implied warranties, then such implied warranties are otherwise limited in duration to the term of this express written limited warranty. This written warranty supercedes and specifically disclaims any other warranty or representation not stated in this warranty. [/spoiler]

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