So Little Fayoumis is watching
Pokémon, and it's the episode with a critter called Ditto, and Ditto can mimic anything. Theoretically. And our heroes have to save it from Team Rocket, and in doing so, they mimic Team Rocket's intro. One of our heroes says, "To ignite all peoples within our nation." James, one of the actual Team Rocket people, yells that they got it wrong, it's actually "to
unite all peoples within our nation."
And I was thinking.
There are miscommunications like this all the time.
And I was thinking more. You know how sometimes it seems like the Shrub is speaking a different language? Take the classic "found poem" from things he has actually said:
Make the Pie Higher
by George W. Bush
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!
And then I thought: Hey! Maybe he
is speaking another language!
Let's run it through
Babelfish and see if it makes any more sense.
Through Spanish, back to English:
( Hmm. )Interesting, but hardly more enlightening.
Let's try putting that through French and back again.
( Would you like that vulcanized? )Oh dear. Must correct that. The French are against everything the US stands for, after all. Hmm. Through German...
( Read more... )Pit bulletins. Yep.
So now, how about Chinese? I was fearful when seeing that the translation while in Chinese displayed only as boxes, but I dutifully cut and pasted, and there were coherent results!
( Read more... )Our wing dream achievement. How much better than that can you get?
Let's try in Japanese, now.
( This is the people and decisive theory of the sickness of mind of the world. )Italian.
( Read more... )Through Korean:
( The enemy the sheep )Through Portuguese...
( Read more... )Our journey would not be complete if this did not take the trip from English, to French, from French to German, and then back to English again, which it arguably never was in the first place:
With the thing as all pasts that their thought they print a distant, emboutissez together in me.
A triumph it that the world, which is continuous a danger in the place, which is this.
That the person of the illness of the spirit and the objection was solved the world
and possible, around to be one it is a loss of the spirit.
What is the swallow our research with this that sparsities together the question as distant?
Does the road of the InterNet the enemy have to telegraph the sheep together
and fastening the child, who the form gives?
It is the expiration of the time in Shaked this type of the hand I?
Perhaps Misunderestimate the white male and this case of fish of the morning,
if he is at the same time present, is full from the whistle of the color of the water pantleg with the person.
With the thing of the family, as if far away the dream of our wing occurs together
and the difficulty of one that it holds on and and a place of the factory of the discovery of our citizen is.
The food of the mouth of the shovel participates in the family!
The OH of the southeast in the lowfirst piece of Tollbooth,
society of Vulcanizzi!
Empanada is accepted annual mouth ardently!
Empanada is accepted annual mouth ardently!
You heard it here. Misunderestimate the white male, and this case of fish of the morning. I couldn't have said it better myself.
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