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by
arrowfall
Mon Apr 03 2000 at 22:25:43
Take a perfectly decent
english
sentence - say,
"This winsome young thing - a most vexing lass - accosted me in the street with a large banana."
Put it in Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com) and direct the site to translate from english into
italian
.
Take the resultant
translation
(
"Questa cosa giovane winsome - un lass d' irritazione - indirizzata a me nella via con una grande banana."
) and have it transformed from italian back to english.
Laugh
at the resulting garbled stuff:
"This young thing winsome - a lass of irritation - addressed to me in the way with one great banana."
It gets better as you run through multiple languages:
"This winsome boy of the thing - a girl of the inflammation - employs a large banana to me over the way."
and finally...
"This boy winsome of the thing - a girl of the ignition - uses a great banana with me above in the way."
I got the babel fish!
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