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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:02 AM
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I'm bored, let's play the Galactic Pot Healer Babel Fish Game!
Take a verse or two from a song, run it through the Babelfish translator to translate into another language, then translate it back to English. Post the result here, and we'll try to guess the song.

Santa is watching, so you better be good, you mofos!
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:03 AM
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1. A Christmas song: English -> Russian -> English
Bell of ringing, Bell of ringing,
jingle completely
oh what fun it to go
in the sleighs of one horse of those opened
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:08 AM
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2. Another Christmas carol: English -> Greek -> English
Hear! how the sweets silver bells
all of bells appear
they say,
You throw the attentions far.
The Christmas brings here
the good cheerfulness new and old
and the article in newspaper with black characters

:wtf:
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:08 AM
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3. English > Japanese > English
Listen the herald whom the angel sings
" The glory to new life king!
Peace and mercy God of calm earth and reconciled" of criminal;
It is delightful, the nation of all ye declare victory of the sky which rises do to connect with the host of the angel:
" As for Christ Bethlehem" So it is born;
Listen! As for the angel of the herald " which is sung;
The glory to new life king! "


:rofl:
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:09 AM
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I don't remember the title...
but it's clearly something by Slayer.
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Rosie1223 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:09 AM
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4. Grandma got run over by a reindeer (to Korean and back)
Edited on Thu Dec-10-09 11:14 AM by Rosie1223
Sorry about the lack of punctuation.

The grandmother in compliance with the reindeer from our house Christmas eve which gets runover at the house leg work you with Santa Claus same about the writing and grandfather the possibility the thing of saying theres but we believe she' where is; Is many that Roh will be wrong and too and d where drinks and us in order for she not to be, she forgets her drug but begs and we seek Christmas morning her and when, the door in compliance with her with the eye in site of the attack which staggers at the outside she has hoofprints to the head of the front of her and the prosecution item ticket in compliance with the reindeer turns runover in her grandmother and from our house Christmas eves which receives at the house leg work you with Santa Claus same about the writing and grandfather the possibility the thing of saying theres but we believe the now we' when is; The grandfather is haughty and all again is like this he' Has this like this and well s that place see him with cousin Nel has from the soccer which sees and the beer which drinks and the trump plaque all family' where is not a Christmas when there is not it grandmother; s puts on the cloth from official approval and help in compliance with us only slants and we whom tries to think but open her futures, or, must return? (The (thing) will listen, return!)
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:11 AM
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5. Is it..."Grandma got ran over by a reindeer?"
:P
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Rosie1223 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:12 AM
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6. the Google said "Run"
:hi:
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:21 AM
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11. Oops.
Or, after translating to Greek and then back to English, "[oyps".
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:13 AM
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7. English > Chinese > English
I jumped the airplane welcome to the fame surplus land in the LAX dream and my wool sweater, suiting which (woah) I go? The caper in the cab, I looked right side this first dynasty, and I see Hollywood to sign this am very crazy everybody as if am very completely famous I tummys turnin and I' m a little feelin in home sick and disabled many pressures and I' Anxious m, That' s, when the taxi person turns on the radio and Jieyi the Z song opens, and Jieyi the Z song opens and Jieyi the Z song opens the chorus: Therefore I recommend my hand they to play my song, and butterflys flies my head likes Noddin to move my buttocks to like, and I obtained my hand, they are playin my song I know I' Goes m is good, It' a s party in the US, It' a s party in the US
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Rosie1223 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:18 AM
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9. Those were the original lyrics Miley wanted, right?
:hi:
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charlie and algernon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:13 AM
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8. English > Korean > English
Edited on Thu Dec-10-09 11:15 AM by charlie and algernon
O all Ye is faithful
and comes and with wins a victory,
O ye comes to ye and O Bethlehem and comes.
Sees him and come, as wages of the angel cherishes;
O came, adores us him which made,
O came, adores us him which made,
O came, adores us him which made,
Christ week.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:19 AM
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10. More Christmas tunes! English -> Italian -> English
Thus this Has been born them
And they have made it what
An other year over
And a new one begun hardly
And thus this Has been born them
I hope that you have fun
That neighbor and beloved
Old and the young people
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:26 AM
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12. English > Portugese > English
In duodécimo day of the Christmas, my true love emitted To beat the drum me of twelve bateristas, Conduction by means of pipes of eleven gaiteiros, A-pull of ten gentlemen, Dance of nine ladies, A-milks of eight house servants, A-swimming of seven swans, A-rank of six geese, Five rings golden, Four birds of call, Three French hens, Two doves of the turtle, and a partridge in a pear tree!
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:27 AM
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13. Have Geddy Lee sing this...
and we'll have the greatest Christmas song ever!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:35 AM
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14. English-Russian-English
You guess...
To be pulled down on the edges of city in the geometric order the isolated boundary between the bright lights I considerably of unlit to grow upward it all it seems so one-sided by opinions by those provide ford by all the Pre- solved future divided and subdivided in the zone of mass production nowhere dreamer or the failure so independently of subdivision - in the halls of secondary school in the shopping centers correspond either throw out of the subdivision - in the bars of basement in the tail ends of the automobiles it is cold or throw outside


Pretty easy but yet quite amusing...
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 11:40 AM
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15. Woo-hoo!
Edited on Thu Dec-10-09 11:44 AM by Dr. Strange
:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

Edit to add: Fucking awesome sigline!!!!!!!!
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 12:17 PM
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16. English > Russian > English > French > Dutch > English
Well point of view of the king of Wenceslas on the pleasure them. When snow places everything near, is deeply and even. Luminous she has to has been shone hang around that, although the frost has been cruel, when the poor person in aiming has arrived that collects the winters of fuel.
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LeftOfSelf-Centered Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 12:57 PM
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17. I must be doing something wrong, this halfway makes sense...
Marvelous 3's "Merry Christmas" English > Italian > English

Some of the stuff that didn't make sense in Italian got corrected again when translated back to English... :shrug:

Johnny comes home each school day
For a stepfather who beat him and a mother who prays
There he grow up to be just like his brother Jay
And not a fucking like her old

Sister's got lots of dreams of his own
Sits with a mountain of pills for your phone
And sooner or later the children return home
A stripper who danced all that can

All the boys who sing once
Merry Christmas to me
Merry Christmas to you
At the end of the day when there's nothing to say
But Merry Christmas from me to you

All the time the children are shouting the lines that say
Jingle bells, shotgun shells, daddy's got a new, 44
I wish I could say that everything was ok
But I'd be lying like a rug on the floor

I just returned home to grab some of my things
Then I washed their hair and I can not bend my wings
And I can drive my angel where he smokes and sings
In a Tina Turner tribute band
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ornotna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 01:07 PM
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18. English-Dutch-English
If you can play on fiddle How' s concerning a British gauge and a reel? Speaking King' s English in quotation such as the terminus of track line in building cities feel the water of the steel plant rust in the generation clears as the winterijs this is your paradise froze there ain' t no need for ya there ain' t no need for ya goes directly to the boys of tends go directly to the boys of tend



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jakefrep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 01:58 PM
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19. A Christmas song: English->Russian->English
It was almost time Christmas, there I stood in another line.
in order to purchase that last gift or 2, actually in the mood of Christmas.
The right before me confronting, was boy anxious.
around as boys make, and in its hand it held the pair of shoes.
And its clothing were carried and old, it was dirty from the head to the toe.
But when it arrived its time to pay, I could not believe what I it heard that he said.
Mr., I want to purchase these boots, for my of mama if you please.
Their night, and these boots exactly are its size.
You could hurry Mr., dad speaks there not much time.
You see she' s, they will be which sick to sufficiently the time interval, and I know these boots they will make its smile.

And I want it to look most beautiful, if mama meets in the evening Of .
They calculated pennys for that it seemed as Lethe, casheer said theres of son not sufficiently here.
It searched for it was pocket frantic, it turned after this and it looked me.
He said Christmas mama good in our hearts however, the majorities of Lethe it exactly made outside.
say to me Mr. that I going to make, some as I' they obtained that it purchased ve by these its boots of Christmas.
So I placed money downward, I exactly must help it outside.
And I' ll never forgets view on its side, when he said mama' s going to look by such large.

Mr., I want to purchase these boots, for my of mama if you please.
Their night, and these boots exactly are its size.
You could hurry Mr., dad speaks there not much time.
You see she' s, they will be which sick to sufficiently the time interval, and I know these boots they will make its smile.
And I want it to look most beautiful, if mama meets in the evening Of .

I knew I it grasped glimce of the love of paradises, in proportion to he thanked me and broke into a run outside.
I knew that god it sent that of boy, to resemble me what Christmas entirely near.

Mr., I want to purchase these boots, for my of mama if you please.
Their night, and these boots exactly are its size.
You could hurry Mr., dad speaks there not much time.
You see she' s, they will be which sick to sufficiently the time interval, and I know these boots they will make its smile.
And I want it to look most beautiful, if mama meets in the evening Of .
I want it to look most beautiful, if mama meets in the evening Of .
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 02:42 PM
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20. It's all (English to) Greek (to English) to me!
While that it sings with his sole in the fire
Gargles in the chorus of seces of rats
Bent from the form from society's pliers
Attentions in order to it doesn't come above by no means in higher
But rather you you go down in
That hole he's in.

But I don't mean no damage neither I put the fault
In each one that lives in a underground booth
But it's all right, but, if I can't I request this.
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 03:06 PM
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21. Stickiness material, stickiness material g 'joob! English--simple Chinese-->English
I am he, because you are he, because you are I,
and we are together completely.
Sees them to run likely the pig from the gun,
how to see them how to fly.
I'm sob.

Sits the corn piece,
waits for the van. Company T-shirt cedar,
stupid bloody Tuesday.
The human, you are a mischievous boy,
you let your face long-term growth.

My eggman, they are eggmen.
I am the walrus,
stickiness material stickiness material g' joob.

Gentleman urban police holds a meeting
quite young police to be continual.
How to see them to fly likely in sky lucy,
how sees them to run.
I'm Sob , I'm sob. I'm Sob , I'm sob.


I am he as you are he as you are me
and we are all together
See how they run like pigs from a gun
see how they fly
I'm crying
Sitting on a cornflake
Waiting for the van to come
Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
Man you've been a naughty boy
you let your face grow long

I am the eggman
they are the eggmen
I am the walrus
Goo goo g' joob

Mr. city policeman sitting
pretty little policemen in a row
See how they fly like Lucy in the sky
See how they run
I'm crying
I'm crying, I'm crying


(to see original, highlight above space^)
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-10-09 03:09 PM
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22. Now that's just awesome.
stickiness material stickiness material g' joob!
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