# Putting song lyrics through Google translator

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 21, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-song-lyrics-through-google-translator/281011 "2004-12-21T18:29:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Merman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@Merman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merman)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-song-lyrics-through-google-translator/281011/1 "2004-12-21T18:29:40Z")

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A few days ago I was listening to the radio. They had a contest where they put song lyrics through one of those internet translators. They translated the lyrics to Swahili then back to English. They gave the translation that came out the other end and the contest was to guess what the original lyrics were.

Anyway, I thought I would have some fun, and did some of my own.

I used the google translator.

I used the lyrics to Eminem’s “Toy Soldiers”.

I translated it to Japanese, then back to English.

The original lyrics were;

> [@](#):
>
> Step by step, heart to heart, left right left  
> We all fall down  
> Step by step, heart to heart, left right left  
> We all fall down like toy soldiers  
> Bit by bit torn apart We never win  
> But the battle wages on for toy soldiers

The results were;

> [@](#):
>
> Each the one step, the left the right  
> us  
> , the center, the remainder 訂 falling everything which the righteousness is done the soldier of the toy  
> it is the bit under everything with the bit, the sea urchin us who are lowered  
> each the remaining one step it falls to the center and the separation れ て where る we do not win  
> wages of fight for the soldier of the toy under any condition it pulls the center to the center which the remaining て is, tearing,

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**Author:** ![Merman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@Merman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merman)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-song-lyrics-through-google-translator/281011/2 "2004-12-21T18:31:58Z")

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Darn it;

Here’s a link to Google Translator.  
[Here](http://www.google.com/language_tools)

And a link to the full [Lyrics](http://www.lyred.com/lyrics/Eminem/Encore/Like+Toy+Soldiers/).

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**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/putting-song-lyrics-through-google-translator/281011/3 "2004-12-21T21:52:06Z")

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I had to join, just because of the humor of the last word of the first line of “I’m a little teapot.”  
\*  
I am small a teapot, shorts and beer of malt.  
Here my handle, here my nozzle.  
When I obtain the whole cooked with the vapor to the top, observe shout me,  
“incline me more and pour me outside!”\*