From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 21 08:24:35 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:24:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HU2fe-00072T-4X for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:24:14 -0700 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.170]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HU2fU-00072G-Ha for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:24:13 -0700 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 32so395647ugm for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:23:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=tlI2mr+vPWoiBJW5v0h/Y0UEN+YXDN8slHPO59YgbZm73xdFUhqukhqsA8lOZnmgcAS63Ij+LPIy6bsZ14ZyDUnUCJvg8Jwl1LKfoOrxvopi5z6nRyu6mpFSjJnxAqaG3QooOtEEhvCGTKGtBhdfi5M5eK/VRqF9p/GaLeioHLQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=XIgNPFfkIDLBKR/B2wvOiuQD0bezmSkdRlY7mKMA9Mez2Z2objAfjJjrHDmEa0KihkoM0aDmt4MMPejljHBbicRFOU0o/521ONe9MtfGTafhP/afzN3lQppaimZlPpUTFWERaJRKkB2K0DEeBGeJyz43QFoR3TEEsp56ORc//Dg= Received: by 10.67.93.6 with SMTP id v6mr3257731ugl.1174490633419; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.23? ( [62.65.213.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 29sm1506185uga.2007.03.21.08.23.50; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [lojban] Re: Abusing BabelFish From: Elmo Todurov To: lojban-list@lojban.org In-Reply-To: <3ccac5f10703210622o523210e9i8754cba716db0043@mail.gmail.com> References: <3ccac5f10703210622o523210e9i8754cba716db0043@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-6Vf8901aHylWBeTikGPT" Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:23:48 +0200 Message-Id: <1174490628.22865.6.camel@dfmwxp> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 X-Spam-Score-Int: -25 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 13622 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: todurov@gmail.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list --=-6Vf8901aHylWBeTikGPT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =C3=9Chel kenal p=C3=A4eval, K, 2007-03-21 kell 16:22, kirjutas Cyril Slobi= n: > coi rodo >=20 > The site http://babelfish.altavista.com does a wonderful job of > translating texts between different languages. Set of languages > supported is impressive. An idea comes to mind to close BabelFish to > itself, i.e. to feed it with it's own output. In other words, to > coerce it to "Broken Phone" AKA "Chinese Whispers" mode. So I've > written a script that does just this. Some folklore: they say that a grand new shiny machine translation (English-Russian-English) was finished and was to be demonstrated to an important official who incidentally didn't speak Russian. So they fed the phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" into the system. History forgot what the Russian result was, but they fed the result back into the system so that the important guy could read it too. The second, English result was "Invisible idiot". Yet another similar, probably unrelated story: the phrase "The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak" was translated into Russian as "=D0=A1=D0=BF= =D0=B8=D1=80=D1=82 =D0=B5=D1=89=D1=91 =D0=BA=D1=80=D0=B5=D0=BF=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9, =D0=BD=D0=BE =D0=BC=D1=8F=D1=81= =D0=BE =D1=83=D0=B6=D0=B5 =D1=82=D1=83=D1=85=D0=BB=D0=BE=D0=B5", meaning "T= he spirit/alchohol is still strong/(has high percentage of ethanol), but the meat has already putrefied". --=-6Vf8901aHylWBeTikGPT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: See on =?ISO-8859-1?Q?s=F5numi?= digitaalselt allkirjastatud osa -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGAU4DA5n1b8XPrFQRAkC9AJ48KEKZkIWZGuD9cOzm/3wSpPtG7QCZASpZ uAhb6y0uRadu55mMUd//u9g= =ULfC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-6Vf8901aHylWBeTikGPT-- To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.