Playing Telephone with Google Translate
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”
- Booker T. Washington
I then translated this quote through six obscure, unpronouncable languages (
Nyanja, Azerbaijani, Xhosa, Cebuano, Igbo, and Tajik) and this was the result:
“The achievement of the development of adolescents as a preventative barrier is not successful.”
-Google Translate
Apparently, a lot can get lost in the translation.
Man and his politics
MY ORIGINAL QUOTE: Man is by nature a political animal - Aristotle
Czech: Man is of the nature of a political animal
Russian: Man has the nature of a political animal
Malayalam: Man is natural political beast
Hawaiian: Man is a man of politics
Greek: The man is a politician
I think the translations were pretty close, atleast the main idea remained intact..
KEY.
(Life’s purpose).
Icelandic- The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Marathi- The purpose of our life is to be happy.
Corsican- The life of our lives is to be happy.
Pashto- Life of our lives must be happy.
Khmer~ Our lives must be happy.
(original) Quote= The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
[—Dalai Lama].
#KEY.
Telephone with Google Translate
Original Quote: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
First Language-Galician: Darkness can not expel darkness; Only light can do it. Hate can not expel hatred; Only love can do it.
Second Language-Lithuanian: Darkness can not throw darkness; Only light can do it. Hatred can not push out hatred; Only love can do it.
Third Language-Maori: Darkness is not darkness; It can only be done in the light. Evil does not hate evil; Only love can work.
Fourth Language-Uzbek: Darkness is not dark; This can only be done in light. Evil does not hate evil; Only love works.
Fifth Language-Tajik: No dark night; This can be only in light. Badman is not bad; Love works alone.
Overall message? Darkness can be overcome by light, as hate can be overcome by love.
Lao Tzu called from the past...
His original quote as translated into English:
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Chinese to Polish to English:
Nature is not in a hurry, but everything is successful.
Polish to Arabic to English:
Of course, not worrying, but it all came true
Arabic to Japanese to English:
Of course not worried, but everything came true
Japanese to Hebrew to English:
Nature's in no hurry. But everything's perfect.
#InternationalTelephoneGame #Challenge
Poe Probably Wrote it
Original: All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Round One! Arabic: Every religion, my friend, has simply evolved from fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
Round Two! Esperanto: Every religion, my friend, simply evolved from fraud, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
Round Three! Luxembourgish: Every religion, my friend, simply evolves into fraud, frustration, greed, imagination and poetry.
Round Four! Romanian: Every religion, friend, evolves simply into fraud, frustration, greed, imagination and poetry.
Round Five! Sinhala*: Every religion, friend, lure, frustration, greed, imagination and poetic quality grow.
The verdict? Lots of thing grow such as religion, friends, lure (temptation), frustration, greed, imagination, and poetic quality. Not exactly what we started with, but it isn't wrong!
*Random Note: Learn Sinhala (the language of Sri Lanka)! The characters are beautiful! :)
Iron Horse
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. -Lou Gehrig
French: Aujourd’hui, je me considère comme l’homme le plus chanceux de la terre.
Spanish: Hoy, me considero el hombre más afortunado de la tierra.
Danish: I dag betragter jeg mig selv som den heldigste mand på jorden.
Polish: Dzisiaj uważam się za najszczęśliwszy człowieka na ziemi.
Italian: Oggi, mi considero l’uomo più fortunato della terra.
After the first five languages it read: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on earth. Since it didn’t change all that much, I used some more languages.
Japanese: 今日、私は地球上で最も運のいい男と考えています。
Malagasy: Ankehitriny, izaho diniho ny tenako izao no olona eto an-Tany.
Estonian: Täna ma pean ennast õnnelikum mees nägu maa.
Welsh: Heddiw, ystyriaf fy hun y dyn mwyaf lwcus ar wyneb y ddaear.
Final translation: Today , I consider myself the most lucky man on the surface of the Earth. So, I guess, the sentiment is still the same.
Google Tragedy
"Never be afraid to believe in yourself, because when you do, magical things begin to happen" - Lindsey Stirling
Do not be afraid to believe in yourself as magic things will start to happen when you do - Google's vers. of Japanese
Do not be afraid to believe in yourself that magic will start when you do it - Google's Igbo
Do not believe yourself if magic will start - Google's Pashto
Do not believe himself when the magic begins - Google's Sundanese
Do not believe when the magic starts - Google's Esperanto