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Lost in Google Translation

A simple ongoing game: we take the lyrics of popular songs, translate them using Google Translate over and over again till they're mush, and hand them to you: your job is to take the garbled machine-translated lyrics and guess the originals...
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Author: Bungle Jerry
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I Would Like to Market My Head

Nov 25, 2009
In this particular case, the original is such a wordathon that what survives is bound to be a strange mess of stuff. Not too difficult, if you happen to know the song. From a plane at the airport Los Angeles, jumping is my dream coat. Welcome to the...

They Call Me That Soft Gel

Nov 22, 2009
Well this one's pretty simple, really. Just including it because the translation cracks me up. Has there ever been a song with lyrics more ridiculous than the original? How we saffron crazy. Saffron and me crazy. How we saffron crazy. I am just crazy....

All the Samples of the River

Nov 19, 2009
I think Google Translate is slowly improving. It seems like more and more often the song makes it through seven languages with enough intact to give away the game. Like this one, for example... it got translated from English into languages as diverse...

What Time the Money was Missing

Nov 16, 2009
Okay, time again for the game in which we translate lyrics all asunder and ask you to decode them. Here's a pile of nonsense that, before machine translation, was less of a pile of nonsense. Back then, what was it? You can find the Barracks grill. In...

The Integration of Me

Nov 13, 2009
An interesting one this time: plenty of cogent phrases shine through from the original. It doesn't get changed radically, except for the catch line: that gets processed into salad... Here in the heart and soul and we have. It is possible for the...


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