Babelfish Fun
I decided to see how good Babelfish was at translating so I inserted the text:
Home of the absolutely average scouser and translated from English to French and the reply came back as:
Maison du scouser absolument moyen. Next I decided to translate this to German which gave the reply:
Haus des scouser unbedingt Mittels. OK so let’s translate back to English and we get:
House scouser absolutely means. That’s not what I asked to be translated so let’s try the other way, Home of the absolutely average scouser English to German gives:
Haus des absolut durchschnittlichen scouser which looks OKish (I don’t speak French or German but I thought It looks OK). Now to French which gave me:
Maison absolument du moyen plus scouser and finally back to English and the reply is:
House absolutely of the means more scouser, WTF does that mean?
Ok your mission if you wish to accept it is to find a phrase or saying (of 5 or more words) that will return the same (or most obscure) translation going either (or both ways) English > French > ???? > English or English > ???? > French > English or other combinations. ???? may be either Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish.
Life in the fast lane English > Italian > French > English gives us Life in the fast lane so maybe it works after all.
March 6th, 2006 at 2:30 pm
LOL, I had to use babelfish a few years back and tried doing the same thing. Pure nonsense when translated back into English.
Funny the things we do to amuse ourselves. Thanks for the cute info. In a roundabout way, Michele sent me. 
March 6th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
Translations are often a good laugh! But you are durchschnittlich in German
Glaub es mir!
March 6th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
@Mar: According to babelfish’s translation, I should believe it to you that I am on the average in German LOL
March 7th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
I was on some blog the other day where the owner had posted the lyrics of a song (just the first verse) done through the triple translation thing and had a competition to guess what the song was. I couldn’t for the life of me figure it out but my ol’ man came in, took one look and said “All My Loving” by “The Beatles”. Slap him!!
~Sharon J