English/Japanese/English/Japanese etc, til you choke. (spam on subject)
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08-09-2009, 07:44 PM
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This is it. Deceptively simple, huh? Just enter anything in English, then press the button. It will do a reasonable translation into Japanese, then back again into English, then again into Japanese, etc, until the two are alike--hitting an equilibrium.
The more complex or idiomatic the English, often the more interesting the result. For example:
"I conjured up a demon that attacked his ugly mug," becomes "My ugly face, he was attacked by a demon conjured," which is something else, again. But it did catch the obsolete slang, mug, for face. Go figure.
"The end of day is the beginning of night," the start of Pierrot Lunaire, one of the great symbolist works, was eventually rendered as "This was the first night." Surrealism gives way to virginity.
And for some reason, "May the Force be with you!" becomes "5 Power!"
The rest is up to you. 
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Last edited by fable; 08-09-2009 at 09:15 PM.
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