Lost in translation…
...(otherwise known as www.tashian.com/multibabel) is an interesting web site if you want to try repeatedly translating a phase or sentence back and forth between English and a series of other languages. The result is much like you got if you used to play Chinese Whispers when you were younger.
For example, after ten iterations:
It’s better to learn a language, than rely on translation tools on the webbecomes
It is a language, this impulse of conteggio learns better in the subsidies to the translation in the Web
May 9th, 2006 at 08:05:34
why am i not surprised…
btw, we called that “flüsterpost” when we were kids.