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Bored?i tried it and its not true, because names cant change in any language and if;
Sarkozy = Blair
Sarkozy = Defends
Sarkozy = Bush
check your facts bro and use a bit of common-sense
Posted by: User1 at October 26, 2007 03:55 PMIt doesn't work anymore now, but it used to, Google must've fixed it.
The thing is that using Google's system you can actually suggest better translations for things, and so apparently someone toyed with the system to make it give the results displayed in the screenshot above.
But of course, logically speaking, names remain names and aren't translated.
It's not as bad as looks, to paraphrase Mark Twain. I entered Rilke's "Initiale:"
Aus unendlichen Sehnsüchten steigen
endliche Taten wie schwache Fontänen,
die sich zeitig und zitternd neigen.
Aber, die sich uns sonst verschweigen,
unsere fröhlichen kräfte—zeigen
sich in diesen tanzenden Tränen.
Google rendered it:
For infinite desires rise
Finite acts as weak fountains,
At the time, and tend trembling.
But to us otherwise hide,
Our merry kräfte-zeigen
In these dancing tears.
The actual translation is:
Out of infinite longings rise
finite deeds like weak fountains,
falling back just in time and trembling.
And yet, what otherwise remains silent,
our happy energies—show themselves
in these dancing tears.
Which isn't bad, given that Rilke's a bear in any language.
Posted by: Janissary at October 27, 2007 02:17 PM

