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Thursday, February 24, 2005

Did You Know? Of course you did

My job requires me to visit the Google Language translation page pretty often. It's a decent tool, but it only really works for getting the gist of something, and isn't very reliable for word-for-word translation. Actually, it's best use is for taking bits of text, translanting them into another language and then translating it back to English. Guaranteed hilarity.

But as many times as I went to the page, I only now noticed that, just below the translation tool, in the listings of interface languages that you can display the Google tools in are: Pig Latin, Klingon, Elmer Fudd, Esperonto, Hacker and a language called "Bork Bork Bork!", which appears to be the language of the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show. I'm not making this up.

The sound you're hearing right now is Hans changing his Google settings to "Klingon".

1 comment:

d-lee said...

heck yeah! I just messed around with the google translator. Just the way you suggested.... translating into a language (I used Japanese) and back into English. That's some funny stuff, and I know funny. Or as the translator puts it,

"That' S the strange raw materials and me it is strange, you know."

That could potentially be way more fun than tha shizzolator .