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Eddie Arlette
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Language "Encryption" by Eddie Arlette

July 19th, 2006 6:49 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Using online translation tools, "encrypt" some text (that you write or find) by translating it multiple times into different languages and then back into English.

For instance, "The drive to play San Francisco Zero" translated from English to German to French to Italian to English again becomes "The order of Saint game Francisco".

I chose a lyric from one of my favorite bands, Johnny Clegg. Just out of curiosity I also translated the lyric back into English at each step, just to see where the translations started getting different.

It's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world

From English to Spanish:
Esto es un mundo cruel, loco, hermoso.
(This is a cruel world, crazy person, beautiful.)

From Spanish to French:
Il est un cruel, fou, beau monde.
(It is cruel, insane, beautiful world.)

French to Korean
그것은 잔인하다, 미친, 아름다운 세계.
(It is cruel, It went mad, The beautiful world.)

Korean to German
Es ist grausam, Es ging wütend, Die schöne Welt.
(It is cruel, It went furiously, The beautiful world.)

German to Dutch
Het is wreed, Het ging woedend, De mooie wereld.
(It is cruel, It went furiously, The beautiful world.)

Dutch to Portuguese
É cruel, Foi furiously, O mundo bonito.
(It is cruel, He was furiously, The pretty world.)

Portuguese to Chinese
它是殘暴的, 他是憤怒地, 俏麗的世界。

Chinese (Traditional) to English
It is cruel, he is angrily, pretty world.

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