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Ribbo
Joined: 25.06.2010

I've been having some fun with google translate, turning English into other languages then back again.

The phrase I chose was: "I won a large pot with four of a kind, queens"

Translated into Japanese it came out "私はクイーン、種の4つ大きな鍋を獲得" which translated back as meaning "I am queen, winning a large pot of four species"
I removed the comma and tried again, and it came back as : "I won a big pot of four types of queen" :f_biggrin:

Time to try some other languages.... :f_cool:


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EmanuelC16
Joined: 02.01.2010

Ahahaha! Ribbo getting bored at the office?


fembot26
Joined: 25.08.2010

I obtained this using the same method:

"He called on the turn with a gutshot with insufficient pot-odds, and then spiked on the river to felt me." became
"He and insufficient pot odds gutshot turn called, and I feel the spikes of a river."

(Kudos on this idea, by the way - poker lingo seems to be hugely vulnerable to catastrophic mistranslation.)

It's oddly disappointing that Google seems to have repaired the classic example of failure in early machine-translation, whereby "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" became, via Russian, "The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten." (But for all I know that could be apocryphal anyway.)

Endless potential for amusement and to laugh at the stupidity of computers! :)


I have the nuts -> finnish -> Olen pähkinät -> I'm nuts


I went all-in with pocket kings and lost to a snowman. (pocket 8s)

english -> japanese -> english

I had pocket kings and all, went missing a snowman.


zamoda
Joined: 16.03.2009

Will Justin Bieber ever hit puberty

English - Vietnamese - English

Enjoy!


rooperts21
Joined: 07.10.2009

Originally posted by zamoda
Will Justin Bieber ever hit puberty

English - Vietnamese - English

Enjoy!


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