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By: douglass truth

douglass truth — Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:33:17 +0000

This reminds me of a game mentioned in Philip K. Dick's book Galactic Pot-Healer. Out-of-work intellectuals would run book titles through various translators back to the original, and then try to figure out the original title. This is one of Dick's funniest and most theological works.

By: tim wu

tim wu — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 06:53:15 +0000

quadruple translation:

"When the thing which he likes as for it can be put up with, the John Perry jackknifes are those who do not dissociate only in tedious existence."

It is "a thing [ want / what / Thierer and The Next Telecom Act-Cato ]."

"After [ a [cyber-ethics champion] ] oar"

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:34:33 +0000

You can see the 'original' Japanese version here. That translation was definitely done by someone who knows what they're doing because it is spot on.

By: M. Mortazavi

M. Mortazavi — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 01:48:29 +0000

I've already written about this elsewhewre. What is needed, practical and possible is not automated translation. What is needed, and will necessarily occur in the long run, is multi-lingualism and at best multi-culturalism. Again, see my post here for more on this.

By: ittousai

ittousai — Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:11:25 +0000

funny thing is, the first English to Japanese translation is done by human translator, unlike subsequent machine translation.

so poor translator will have to do this entry too, preserving how funny those "miserable mistranslation gibberish" you quote sounds like.

...and that translated entry too will be re-translated again into English by machine...sounds like Borges/Kafka-esque translator's nightmare.