A Wicked Deception July 22, 2008
Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in Fun stuff, Translation Sites.trackback
One of my former students sent this to me today. I don’t know how I’d missed it until now.
This fine little film by Matt Sloan capitalizes on Babelfish for its dialog. It translates to and from English, French and German. It was filmed on location in Trouville, France. Enjoy!
I want to neglect the remainder of my life with you!
Fabulous! I know that machine translation has come a long way, but how can one not laugh out loud while watching this? BTW I hadn’t seen this on your blog yet, and someone forwarded me an e-mail from the Quebec translators association listserve about it; you’re famous!
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Wonderful! It’s funny how a video can turn around the entire afternoon – thanks Jill!
This made me cry laughing!
Oh, priceless!!! Had to delurk to say thank you for sharing this.
Love your blog!
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Hi, where could I get the script?
If it’s not available, I’ll do it myself 😦