TRANSLATION TIDBI

Chatterbox: Down to Earth

TRANSLATION TIDBI

TRANSLATION TIDBIT:

I want you to look at these two messages and compare them for a moment.

1) The Chatterbox is an amazing place! There are tons of cool people there and I have a lot of friends. I'm so, so sorry I deserted it for 4 months!

2) Bigmouth is a fantastic place! There are tons of nice people there and I have many friends. I am so sorry that I have abandoned for 4 months!

You probably noticed some major differences. Why? It's because something happens when you translate a message into different languages. I changed message 1 into Danish, Italian, and Spanish before making it English, where it became message 2.

Weird, huh? UndecidedNow you try! (I went on Google.)

 

Very interesting! Chatterbox to Bigmouth!

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submitted by WritingWarrior, age CLASSIFIED, Off the beaten
(April 2, 2011 - 1:20 pm)

Ooh, this sounds really fun! I can't wait to try. I think I'll just translate this message and see what happens.

Ooh, this sounds really fun. I can not wait to try. I think I will translate this message and see what happens.

It sounds... more formal. That's all, though. It isn't really very different. I'll try this, then!

It sounds ... more formal. That's all, though. This is not really very different. I'll try it, then!

Ditto (I never use that word and would normally say same, but it's not a complete sentence that way and a mistranslation is less likely), except that it could cause a misunderstanding with the 'it.'

Ditto (I never use this word and would normally say the same, but this is not a complete sentence in this way and a wrong interpretation is less likely), except that it may cause a misunderstanding with ' . "

Well, that was different!

Well, That Was Different!

Hm.

submitted by Ima
(April 2, 2011 - 7:49 pm)

Google "multibabel." The first result is a website that does just this by taking an English sentence that you submit and translating it into ten different languages before it goes back into English. It's hysterical, and pretty fun to play with. 

submitted by ZNZ, age 13, Thulcandra
(April 3, 2011 - 3:31 pm)

TOP!

submitted by Top, age Top, Top
(April 3, 2011 - 2:48 pm)

Wow. Multibabel is awesome. Twinkle, twinkle little star:

Radical reduction radically, reducing radically, a small asterisk! Since they are surprised, which you are. The end of the A the one of the world increased so, as it makes shine like diamonds in the sky, especific ignited, the radical reduction radically, reducing radically, the small one, asterisk! Since they are surprised, which you are.

Silent Night:

Calm night, Saint night: Everything is calm; everything is becoming inflamed! The matrix and yon the return of in target of the child virgins, smooth saint of smooth Kinderso and, dream in ***** La Paz, of the dream in ***** La Paz!

A song From Mugglenet:

God rest ye merry hippogriffs, let nothing you dismay
Remember Harry Potter was born midsummer’s day
To save us all from Voldemort who’d sworn the boy he’d slay
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!

So to the Boy Who Lived, great Dumbledore then came
And bore him to his relatives who hardly knew his name
He grew up like his parentage with powers of the same
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!

Now to the fates be grateful, all you within this place
Harry is a wizard now, whom magic doth embrace
He’ll face the wrath of Voldemort—him from the Earth erase!
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy!

Well, it said it was being particularly unreliable right now, so, um...

Hippogriffs of the YE of the god allegro, that it only had resources for, remembered to the scares that Harry Potter was the day, that we in any way in carreg them midsummer___s around the end not to support here all who___d of the place of the volume in sworne of he___d the slaughter of the boy oh, to the notice of the comfort and the joy, the comfort and ah the joy, notice of the comfort and the joy! Thus to the boy, this that lived, great Dumbledore has come then to its/holes for the parents, who had known its name badly, of what it cultivated the gradice its reduction with the energies of the same thing oh, notice of the comfort and the joy, the comfort and ah the joy, notice of the comfort and the joy! It is waiting with the recognition destinations, considerando all that now you are in this station of the work of Harry a Magier, the one that the hugged magician of the riot of He___ll of doth of Voldemort___him of the abolition of the land of the forehead! Ah, notice of the comfort and the joy, comfort and joy ah, notice of the comfort and joy!

...Yeah.

Still!

submitted by Ima
(April 3, 2011 - 7:22 pm)

This sounds fun! 

French: This resounds the recreation!

German: This resounds the recovery!

Italian: This resounds the restoration!

Portuguese: This resounds the restoration!

Spanish: This resounds the restoration!

 

Oh my gosh this is so funny! Let me try this:

We like sheep!

Spanish: Gradiciamo the ewes

Haha! This is great!

You smell like a monkey and you look like one too!

German: They resemble a drop hammer and you feel like also!

Spanish: Somigliano to a hammer to release to the fall and you consider as well as!

 

 

 

Wow, this is great! I'll come up with more and post later!! ;) 

submitted by Elizabeth M , age 11, Germany
(April 4, 2011 - 11:45 am)

This looks fun!

Labrador Retrievers are amazing dogs used for hunting, companion sports, and conformation.  But really, they are just as content being a family dog as much as they are running through underbrush in search of a bird.

French:

The pointers of Labrador are an astonishing dog used to drive out, sports of companion, and conformation. But really, they are right as contained being a dog of family as much as they carry out by the underbrush in search of a bird.

German:

The pointers of Labrador are an amazing dog, which is used, in order to chase away, sport of the companion and adjustment. But really, they are right, there contain a dog of the family being so much as them by and-hereditaryrest in the search for a bird would drive through you.

Italian:

The pointers of Labrador are a narcotic dog, that he is used, in order to chase via, sport of the companion and adaptation. But really, they are of right, contains a dog of the family that is so as well as like they from e-hereditaryrest in the search of a bird would guide through you.

Portuguese

The hands of Labrador are a narcotic dog, that one that is used, the end to pursue through, sport of the companion and adaptation. But really, they are of the right, they contain a dog of the family who is in order to good as as of more e-hereditaryrest in the search of a bird she would guide through you.

Oh wow that's was amazing.  That didn't come out at alll the same!

submitted by Charlotte, age 13
(April 6, 2011 - 3:24 pm)

That is sooo cool WW.

Here's mine:

1). I am so glad you are back!! I was really missing you, WW!! I hope you are back to stay! How have you been? How come you left for sooo long??

After Portugese, Chinese, Dutch, Welsh, and Haitian Creole:

2).I WILL be glad you! Second Gen II, I really miss you! I wish you came to me! How do you do? How long soo?

 

Wow! That was weird. I have no clue how "I was really missing you WW!!" came to "Second Gen II"

All you have to do is search google translate, and click the second one. That's the best one I found.

That was sooo cool WW. 

submitted by -Vida-
(April 8, 2011 - 10:24 am)

Awesome thread so I am resurrecting it!

submitted by Christina M., age 11, Sunny Los Angeles CA
(June 7, 2011 - 8:35 pm)