Humor Bad Translations...

[Spacethingy]

Inspired by wish-corrupter and "clever" chat-bot threads...

Don't you just love machine translations! After several hours bashing Google translate to come up with something sensible for "space is big" in Latin, I found this was rather good for raising a smile:
www.ackuna.com/badtranslator

Original:

Orbiter is a simulator that gives you an idea what space flight really feels like - today and in the not so distant future. And best of all: you can download it for free!

Translated:

Competitors, said the magic shop is a comet. Finally, you can download for free!

Woah! This is spooky!

Original:

ORBITER-FORUM offers the ability for users to share their experiences, and for teams to collaborate and communicate online which is an integral part of the ORBITER experience.

Translated:

Orbiter, experience exchange and cooperation on the Internet, such as forum discussions, and experience the probe.

 

[Grover]

i started with

i wish that i could fly, because then i could taste clouds

and ended up with

Easter

obviously online translators arent too good

 

[iamwearingpants]

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/boomerang/index.html

 

[astrosammy]

"Houston, we've had a problem."

...10 translations later Google gives us:

"Houston has been verified.


"Houston, we've had a problem."

...10 translations later Google gives us:

"Houston is a problem."


"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills."

...10 translations later Bing and Google give us:

"We decided to go to the moon. We decided to go to moon in this decade and do other things not as they are easy, but because of their poverty, to prepare the best of our ability to be able to test."