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#1 2009-08-16 09:30:41

Mary
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Registered: 2004-06-27
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Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

Translation Party automates translating a phrase back and forth between English and Japanese until it is pretty much gibberish, and often pretty funny.

So I decided to plug in some phrases about Textpattern to see what I got back.

Textpattern 4.2: better than sliced bread.

becomes

Textpattern 4.2: We recommend that you slice the bread.

Edit: Aw, it won’t translate that way anymore. :(

Manage to find any funny phrases, Txp-related or not?

Last edited by Mary (2009-08-16 09:31:58)

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#2 2009-08-16 11:49:25

kvnmcwebn
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

wow thats mental. has a big library.

a pint of guiness please.

becomes

guiness beer, I am really thankful.


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#3 2009-08-16 12:36:19

ruud
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

Funny and slightly addictive :)

Things are more beautiful when they are hard to see

becomes:

Beautiful, it is difficult

and (yes, I’m trying song lyrics)…

finding the flow, minding the sway, catching green lights all the way

becomes:

All the green light, was angry to find a way to attract the flow of air

Last edited by ruud (2009-08-16 12:38:50)

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#4 2009-08-16 12:50:46

Bloke
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From: Leeds, UK
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

Fun… could be used to find a new TXP slogan. Or not :-)

Textpattern 4.2 rocks like a rocking thing on national rock day

==> Country rock, rock, rock Textpattern 4.2 (!)

Or on a more movie-ish theme:

Casablanca:

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Textpattern 4.2 walks into mine

==> This town, the world, all the gin joints, Textpattern walked from the mine on April 2

Dirty dancing:

Nobody puts Textpattern 4.2 in a corner

==> Each corner, Textpattern 2007 Sunday April 2 years

(although an interim translation “Is 4.2 in all corners of Textpattern” was probably better)

Jaws:

Mr. Vaughan, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er… CMS. It’s really a miracle of evolution

==> Mr. Vaughan is to do this is the best engine in the endoplasmic reticulum … CMS. The real miracle of evolution

Last edited by Bloke (2009-08-16 12:53:02)


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#5 2009-08-16 21:34:52

mrdale
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Registered: 2004-11-19
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

Some Dickens is in order… “it is a far, far better thing I do now, than I have ever done.”

becomes (and I shit you not)…

“Good record, I now am a complete virtual environment”

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#6 2009-08-16 22:29:31

maniqui
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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

Basic english lessons become some kind of koan

“The pencil is in the pencilbox”
==> “Pencilbox is a pencil” (here)

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#7 2009-08-16 23:20:04

els
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Registered: 2004-06-06
Posts: 7,458

Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

Ooh, I love this :) Quoting colak:

Installed it in one of my sites and all works beautifully.

becomes: It is a beautiful work that will be installed on my site.

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#8 2009-08-17 02:06:39

maniqui
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

The thing went crazy when I fed it with

“Textpattern is about texts and patterns”

See yourself


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#9 2009-08-17 05:15:29

MattD
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

maniqui wrote:

The thing went crazy when I fed it with

“Textpattern is about texts and patterns”

See yourself

Ha Ha, add a space in Textpattern and it says

Pattern of the text, the text of the pattern.


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#10 2009-08-18 04:47:30

rsilletti
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Registered: 2004-04-28
Posts: 707

Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

I thought five iterations with Shakespeare would be predictable.

As you from crimes would pardon’d be, Let your indulgence set me free.

became:

From crime, are threatening pardon’d me.

Doesn’t hold a candle to “Textpattern is about texts and patterns”!

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#11 2009-08-18 05:07:40

Mary
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Registered: 2004-06-27
Posts: 6,236

Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

I find the words chafing dish disgusting.

To search for a food instrument in the instrument of language is a means for the isolation of the equipment.

Um, okay…

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#12 2009-08-18 05:55:39

maniqui
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Re: Translation Party & Textpattern 4.2

Code is pottery

Dress code


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