Comments on: Never Trust Bablefish: Top 13 Worse Slogan Translations

By: jim

jim — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:18:22 +0000

No Va is an urban legend also

By: lcoolonline

lcoolonline — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:43:08 +0000

good Trust

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Share Quotes : — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:51:16 +0000

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Acne Treatment : — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:39:30 +0000

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By: Spash

Spash — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:28:25 +0000

[citation needed]

By: Spash

Spash — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:30:22 +0000

Proof that Bablefish did this?

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:38:49 +0000

LOL those are hilarious!!
…but it really isn’t Babelfish’s problem. Like another posting said, idioms and slang can’t be translated. I mean…vacuums DO suck.
Example…NEVER say “tabernaque” (spelling?) in Quebec Canada. Literally translated it just means church (tabernacle) but it’s a nasty swear in Quebec, right up there with f**k.

BTW…that story about the Gerber’s baby food in Africa…urban legend. Never happened.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:14:33 +0000

Lots of people know about the genious that is douglas adams!!!! Though i agree there are quite a few things in common usage that people dont realise have come from Hitch Hikers Guide.

By: tom simmons

tom simmons — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:48:46 +0000

I loved it, the story abou ‘the flesh is willing……..’ was told to me in the 1970′s and concerned the CIA programme to translate, the Russian Ambassador asked for a demonstration and the smile on his face was due to the translation ‘ The vodka is agreeable – but the meat has gone rotten’ I have told this maby times, until I found Bablefish.
Bu the way – why does nobody know about Douglas Adams?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:36:50 +0000

lol, the pope iz an old potato
[insert picture of a rotting potato here]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:32:56 +0000

lmao!
imaging a person buying a shirt from a booth with a picture of the pope, and under it says: I saw the potato

By: lill

lill — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:36:42 +0000

Very funny… to people who complain about online translators though, you can’t really blame them. You have to understand how complicated language is (which is pretty hard to do if you only speak one language, so learn another). It’ll be years before we have computers that can translate well. Its not that they aren’t doing their best, we just can’t do it yet in terms of technology.

If you try putting in the phrase from the bible “The spirit in willing but the flesh is weak”, and using computer translators (into some languages, not others), it translates as “The alcohol is prepared, but the meat is spoiled.”

By: Lena

Lena — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:53:21 +0000

Well, I found this thing while finding bablefish to translate the website of a Japanese University for me. I don’t know what the original says, but bablefish says that they keep talking about their ‘ill-smelling’ campus’. Hmmm, ill-smelling? I really want to go on exchange to there now! (I wonder what they’re actually saying, though… Better ask my teacher…)

By: demurral

demurral — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:43:03 +0000

Suffer from diarrhea was fun
But the elektrolux slogan is not funny cus they knew what they wrote ^^

By: prajith

prajith — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:01:41 +0000

dangerous…
Thanks for the info