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Re:Show HN: Translate text through random languages, 35 times by MichaelCrawford on Saturday March 21, 2015 @09:45PM (#9245151)
"Coke Adds Life" yields "'Coca-Cola', and a large part of his life and death."

I thought of Coke Adds Life because a marketing campaign in China led the locals to take it as "Coke brings your ancestors back from the dead".

Re:Show HN: Translate text through random languages, 35 times by gus_massa on Saturday March 21, 2015 @03:39PM (#9243938)
I got a strange result: http://dfkoz.com/lost-in-translation/?seed=The%20cat%20is%20....

Repeating this a few times, it falls in something like "Rapporten أنا stjal的。" or "Katten根据etole的。" and the further translations don't change.

My guess is that in these expressions the language is not autodetected, so the text in not translated to the new language.

Re:Show HN: Translate text through random languages, 35 times by jones1618 on Monday March 23, 2015 @02:15PM (#9252459)
The translator bots have dirty minds. Give them the golden rule: "Do to others only what you would have them do to you." and you get "I did it with other people, and you want to try."
Re:Show HN: Translate text through random languages, 35 times by nunull on Monday March 23, 2015 @02:48PM (#9252649)
I've just tried "Do to others only what you would have them do to you." and got "I just want to do it."
Re:Show HN: Translate text through random languages, 35 times by skelsey on Saturday March 21, 2015 @11:07PM (#9245398)
Might be an interesting way to find errors in translation software.
Re:Show HN: Translate text through random languages, 35 times by bbcbasic on Sunday March 22, 2015 @10:06PM (#9249125)
This could be an interesting way to see the software, and there is an error in the translation.