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nicolaaar · Joined: 15 Sep 2003

I'm sure you have your fair share of gobbledegook coming out of your students electronic dictionaries so I thought you might appreciate this site!
www.tashian.com/multibabel/

peppermint · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 12:00 am Post subject:

Aigu! I typed "Mary had a little lamb who's fleece was white as snow"

It got translated back from Korean as:

"The woolen fabric eye is small and because from that place of both
conveniences which are young the maul li it is a white inside"

"that place of both conveniences"????

Ryst Helmut · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:02 am Post subject: Get this

Ok...was in my class this week and looked up "goo-doo-swe" (sorry, on an English comp...) and broke out in a cackle with the first definition!

#4 penny pincher
#3 tightfisted
#2 niggardly
#1 a Jew

Dude, WTF?!?!!?!?!?!

The Japanese girls were saying "Jew! Jew! Jew!"...and while I was crying in laughter, and choking on words like "no, don't say that" I think I pissed myself!

Ohhh, the humanity.

Shoosh,

R yst

vegetable · Joined: 03 Sep 2003

From "Animals are my friends and I don't eat my friends" comes

"The animals are not my friends and they do not eat my friends"

Some computers are so stubborn.

l0ckx · Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Location: PA, USA

This is great!

I put in "I love you" and got "Master to him". hahah

It really is a sexist world!

peace,
mike

Walter Mitty · Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Location: Tokyo! ^.^

Heh.

"If you're happy and you know it clap your hands."

becomes

"If the wealth to know to this situation its applause its hand."

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

How about this one:

"Leslie stroked her bronze, pert breasts, plucking her fingers over her perky nipples, as she fantasized about her lover's hard, powerful organ."

"How much in such a way that relative Fantasized lasts delays the agency, that one is efficient, more ahead than the triumphant nature he was Leslie, that they more ahead in triumphant natures, of that demands it? That barretta relative is the technician of center of entrerrosca perky of the valuation of the program to the interior of the relative thing."

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

To be is to do. [Aristotle] To do is to be. [Descartes] Do be do be do. [Sinatra]

Korean: The what kind of situation must do. What is it is a what kind of
situation. It decides it, it is.

[Cool, sounds very Taoist]

Yoda: Do, or not. There is no try.

Korean: Or it is not intelligence. Reading without.

Moldy Rutabaga · Joined: 01 Jul 2003 Location: Ansan, Korea

Those little cheapie dictionaries can get you into trouble.

A friend in Mexico asked me, "how much do you win at work?" I thought.. win? What could I win, another job?.. As it turned out, Spanish ganar means both win and earn in English.

Sometimes the ridiculous translations those machines produce can give you teaching ideas in class. When a student produces a really dated or obscure word on his calculator, I can talk for a while about that. Many students don't understand the idea that words come and go in English over the centuries.

Ken:>

kimcheeking · Guest

to be or not to be

Relativo or Nichtsein

whatthefunk · Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Location: Dont have a clue

'After I got a soft drink from the local store, I walked slowly to work while contemplating the meaning of it all.'

Becomes...

'After a drink, that receives the place of the alcoolizzato of the
memory he, is not slow totally, the excess in a work of the furnace to
the rudders, if this complete number of him is this direction and
contemplating.'

kiwiboy_nz_99 · Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Location: ...Enlightenment...

"I'm a freak and I like it" ....becomes "They are a phenomenon and esteem"

Walter Mitty · Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Location: Tokyo! ^.^

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

becomes

"arctomys? It is in the situation the end to produce the tree? Meat, tree luxuriant of the payments of the facilities of arctomys? Meat?"

Shocked