Category: Language Fun

What The Hell Is An Advertisement? »

By thomas on Nov 22, 2007 in Language Fun | 2 Comments

Rikker at Thai101 has published a fascinating post about Thailand’s first printing press. The owner published a newspaper called the Bangkok Recorder, and advertisements seemed to confuse some of the readers. Here’s an excerpt:
I, the owner of this newspaper, have heard that those who purchase the Bangkok Recorder wonder, “Why are so many […]

Multibabel - Computer Translation Fun »

By thomas on Oct 26, 2007 in Language Fun | 1 Comment

Rikker over at Language Scraps has made a great find: Multibabel. Just type in an english sentence and it will translate it back and forth between several languages and English until you end up with a machine-translated mess! Here’s my entry:
Original English Text:
I want to eat apple pie.
Translated to French:
Je veux […]