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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Apr 1998.
Re: Hi Wuzi ...

Re: Hi Wuzi ...

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
<stuff elided>
> The idea? To translate a piece of text back and forth between two
> languages, and see if it settles into an attractor - either a single
> sequence of words that survives the translation, or even possibly
> a cycle between several versions.
> 
> The results are not only often hilarious, but maybe - just maybe -
> you might be able to gain some new insight as well. :)

I did a single cycle on a single version of the cartoon below, the
translation survived and is amusing as well!

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02                                                          02
03  Frogstein and Birdstein - The Squeeze                   03
04  by Pete Casso 980404                                    04
05                                                          05
06             Frogstein! Why don't you ever                06
07            sit back and cross your legs?                 07
08           /                                              08
09          /       Ouch, Birdstein! OUCH! I will squeeze   09
10                 what nature has put between my legs!     10
11    _==_        /                                         11
12    ( ">      oo.                                         12
13   (> )>     (-  )                                        13
14    ^^        " "                                         14
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Translated by Alta Vista from English to French to English 062
02                                                          02
03  Frogstein and Birdstein - Compression                   03
04  by Pete Casso 980404                                    04
05                                                          05
06             Frogstein! Why don't you sit down            06
07            behind and do not cross your legs?            07
08           /                                              08
09          /       Ouch, Birdstein! OUCH! I will tighten   09
10                 what nature has put between my legs!     10
11    _==_        /                                         11
12    ( ">      oo.                                         12
13   (> )>     (-  )                                        13
14    ^^        " "                                         14
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