Re: Hi Wuzi ...

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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