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Sparky the Wonder Bird
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Language "Encryption" by Sparky the Wonder Bird

July 29th, 2006 12:03 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".

For this task I'm not going to start in English. I'm going to start in Latin with my favorite poem by Catullus that I had to memorize for a class back in the day.

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. (my spelling may be off. I only memorized how to say it)

In English that's "I hate and I love. Why do I do this, perhaps you ask. I do not know, but I feel that it is happening and am tormented.

I wanted to start by flinging it entirely out of the indo-european language family, but all that bablefish will let you do with Chinese, Japanese or Korean is translate it back into English. So what we have here is English to Portuguese to French to Greek (to at least get out of the romance languages), Greek then has to go back through English, then to German to see if we can't get that one bit that wouldn't translate to any of these other languages to translate (success!), through French again, Dutch and then back to English.

The result?
Our and themselves want Mjsime. Because I form these, you ask perhaps. I weet not that I believe however that he the tormented reach morning also.

... Never knew that Catullus was a Dadaist.

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