Comments on: Fish Jokes http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/02/fish-jokes/ Language Learning and Multiculturalism Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:33:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Statistical Machine Translation « Tower of Confusion http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/02/fish-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Statistical Machine Translation « Tower of Confusion Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:02:54 +0000 http://towerofconfusion.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/fish-jokes/#comment-101 [...] is the original French text quoted from my past post last year on machine-translation humours: Les Chinois qui ont dû payer une taxe d’entrée à [...] [...] is the original French text quoted from my past post last year on machine-translation humours: Les Chinois qui ont dû payer une taxe d’entrée à [...]

]]> By: frenchninja http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/02/fish-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-99 frenchninja Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:35:26 +0000 http://towerofconfusion.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/fish-jokes/#comment-99 I used to play with Babel Fish and what I found was even funnier was not just translating from one language to the other, but from one language to the other and then back again. For instance: "The dog could have translated this sentence better." to Japanese: 犬はこの文をよりよく翻訳したかもしれない Then back from Japanese to English: "Perhaps the dog it translated this sentence well" - not quite the same thing, in fact it's quite the opposite of what I'm trying to say, i.e that the dog could've done a better job! Hours of entertainment :-) I used to play with Babel Fish and what I found was even funnier was not just translating from one language to the other, but from one language to the other and then back again.

For instance:

“The dog could have translated this sentence better.” to Japanese:
犬はこの文をよりよく翻訳したかもしれない
Then back from Japanese to English:
“Perhaps the dog it translated this sentence well” – not quite the same thing, in fact it’s quite the opposite of what I’m trying to say, i.e that the dog could’ve done a better job!
Hours of entertainment :-)

]]> By: Fun With Global Translator « Tower of Confusion http://www.towerofconfusion.com/2007/02/02/fish-jokes/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Fun With Global Translator « Tower of Confusion Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:57:08 +0000 http://towerofconfusion.wordpress.com/2007/02/02/fish-jokes/#comment-100 [...] Fun With Global Translator February 7, 2007 Posted by edwinlaw in Humour. trackback Here is a follow-up on my recent post “Fish Jokes“. [...] [...] Fun With Global Translator February 7, 2007 Posted by edwinlaw in Humour. trackback Here is a follow-up on my recent post “Fish Jokes“. [...]

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