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Translation Party

2009-08-06 20:41:32.946714+00 by Dan Lyke 5 comments

Translation Party translates a phrase back and forth from English to Japanese until it gets the same output. Just to save you the typing, "excited naked girls" does not reach equilibrium. Via Sensible Erection.

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comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):

#Comment Re: made: 2009-08-07 00:17:28.448928+00 by: meuon

Perfect. I have a Monday AM demo to some Japanese, and I wanted to verify some translations. Itchy Bon!

#Comment Re: made: 2009-08-07 14:09:30.413929+00 by: Larry Burton

Running the second amendment through that thing gives some disturbing results.

#Comment Re: made: 2009-08-08 05:29:46.846898+00 by: TheSHAD0W [edit history]

Try "Praise Bob!" And contrast that with "Praise God!"

#Comment Re: made: 2009-08-08 05:33:48.052488+00 by: TheSHAD0W

And this explains so much!

#Comment Re: made: 2009-08-10 19:25:29.357859+00 by: meuon

Side note: the basic translations I needed like: Login = ログイン and Recent Purchases = 最近の購入履歴

All checked out well with Translation Party, as well as a live interpreter, and made the Japanese delegation very happy to see our software demos in Japanese.