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Title: Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: The cranky hermit on June 25, 2003, 05:08:55 pm

I was looking at a Spanish emulation news site called Emulatronia, and I tried translating the MAME section with Babelfish. The results are incredible. I haven't laughed so hard all day.

http://tinyurl.com/f9mn

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: meta87 on June 25, 2003, 05:21:39 pm

Yah I tried to use Babelfish to write an essay for Spanish class...

Well, lets just say my teacher caught on :D

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: Hoe on June 25, 2003, 05:32:40 pm

Do americans use correct english? Nope. I doubt spanyards are a heck of a lot differnt with their langauge.

Maby you should ask for a fefund.

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: Chris on June 25, 2003, 05:38:30 pm

Oh, that actually hurts I'm laughing so hard!

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: The cranky hermit on June 25, 2003, 06:32:41 pm

Quote from: Hoe on June 25, 2003, 05:32:40 pm

Do americans use correct english? Nope. I doubt spanyards are a heck of a lot differnt with their langauge.

Maby you should ask for a fefund.

Whoosh! That's the sound of the point flying over your humorless head. That page was translated by a MACHINE, not a Spanyard.

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: radiator on June 25, 2003, 06:58:23 pm

"For that you lose yourselves in the meantime SUCKS we will say to you that it can agree to you more...

...That yes, if you want comfort you will have yourself to lower an front-end"

wise words IMO ;D

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: Hoe on June 25, 2003, 07:36:15 pm

Cersplat! My point is that it's impossible for a machine to compinsate for how people abuse a langauge. Go ahead and run "I wuv my m4d r0mz" through it and see how well it turns out. Thanks though, I enjoy flamewars.

Any ways, this is offtopic and rubbish.

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: CGRemakes on June 25, 2003, 07:40:09 pm

I agree, the translation is not very accuarate.  I can only say this for spanish because that's all I speak (other than english of course), but I imagine the other languages are the same.  I currently have it on my site, but may remove it because I'm not sure it helps much.

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: Random24 on June 25, 2003, 08:58:59 pm

For something even funnier look here:

http://www.mame.net (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=es_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mame.net)

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: The cranky hermit on June 25, 2003, 10:45:14 pm

Quote from: Hoe on June 25, 2003, 07:36:15 pm

Any ways, this is offtopic and rubbish.

I should have included this:

(http://www.angelfire.com/tx/scooterbb/images/setup.gif)

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: Hoe on June 25, 2003, 10:56:51 pm

I'm glad to see you understand me like a book based upon one post of mine. I personaly perfer to steal animated gifs of flamming skulls, to each his own.

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: The cranky hermit on June 25, 2003, 11:10:04 pm

Well, I thought it was pretty funny when it says stuff like "MAC SUCKS," "SUCK for Linux," and "SUCK for the small one
of the Microsoft house." You seem more interested in pointing out that machines aren't perfect. But, as you say, each to his own.

Title: Re:Babelfish SUCKS (MAME related)
Post by: Odonadon on June 25, 2003, 11:47:27 pm

So, what, MAME is spanish for "suck"?  What the dilly, yo?

Odonadon