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 web
becomes
It is a language, this impulse of conteggio learns better in the subsidies to the translation in the Web

One Response to “Lost in translation…”

  1. k.d. Says:

    why am i not surprised…

    btw, we called that “flüsterpost” when we were kids. ;)