Translation Party

This is a fun exercise in the utility and accuracy of mechanical translation. Go to Translation Party and input a random sentence. I used the opening of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address. The script then does an automatic translation of the English into Japanese. Then it translates the Japanese to English, then back again. It will keep doing this until the English matches itself between iterations.

For the Gettysburg Address, it took 19 iterations and mangled it as much as you would expect.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

…becomes…

We are one of the two continents, seven years ago, for a new country, the same proposal, the ancestors of free time, many of us, to create a single-point one four.

Take this as a lesson — this technology is not quite ready yet.