Thursday, November 17, 2005

Life on Babelfish?

Thanks to Kelly for this suggestion... Take some song lyrics, translate them on Babelfish, and then translate them back into English again!

So here's the chorus of The The's Soul Mining:

Something always goes wrong when things are going right,
You've swallowed your pride to quell the pain inside,
Someone captured your heart like a thief in the night,
And squeezed all the juice out until it ran dry.


And here's the English-Japanese-English translation:

When as for something always thing has gone just in order in to calm pain,
Your pride which is swallowed as for someone who goes by mistake like the thief of the night until it captured the center of the hatchet,
It dried moved juice everything was squeezed.

So, then I tried the chorus of David Bowie's Life On Mars?:

Sailors fighting in the dance hall,
Oh man! Look at those cavemen go,
It's the freakiest show,
Take a look at the lawman beating up the wrong guy,
Oh man! Wonder if he'll ever know,
He's in the best selling show,
Is there life on Mars?


Which gave me this English-Japanese-English translation:

The person of crew Ohio state which fights with the dance hall!
Those hole staying people it goes,
That it is and / or the most whimsical show,
Tries looking at the legal process server which has been struck on the person and the person of Ohio state whom you make a mistake,
See! Whether or not him in the best sale show,
There Mars life him think in the doubt which has been known?

Genius.

1 comment:

Kelly said...

The life on Mars one is brilliant! Have I started a new craze???