Re: Hi Wuzi ...

Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> 
> aardvarko (rea...@message.com) wrote:
> : Original text:
> : Hello! I'm rather bored right now and wanted to try this bloody
> : translator thingie. Anyone want a hamburger?
> 
> : French:
> : Bonjour! Je m'ennuie plut�t en ce moment et ai voulu essayer ce thingie
> : sanglant de traducteur. N'importe qui veulent un hamburger?
> 
> : And back:
> :  Hello! I am bored rather in this moment and wanted to test this thingie
> : strapping of translator. Do no matter who want a hamburger?
> 
> Such translation services in fact are an excellent opportunity for the
> not-quite-so-serious area of science known as iterative translation
> analysis.
> 
> 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.
> 
> More thorough study can be done by repeating the process for slightly
> different wordings of the same sentence, and seeing whether they
> converge to the same attractor or not. More complex situations are
> formed if more than two languages are involved.
> 
> The results are not only often hilarious, but maybe - just maybe -
> you might be able to gain some new insight as well. :)
> 
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Ya,i had heared of that b4 in a book,"the majik machine",by A.K.Dewdney i think.
I know i got his last name messed up,just dont want hunt for the book
just now:) any how,I guess this is getting off the topic of ascii art
but i Haddent heared of the attractor aspect of this b4 and now i am 
interested.I have heard of some funny stuff coming out of this process
though,I guess altavista tran will get a few more hits now..........


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