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Caravan Ray wrote:...and this song sounds much nicer via Chinese:

I want the animal which likes me with your sexual intercourse wanting to feel you
from me to want with your sexual intercourse to like the animal my whole existence
having flaw inside you to obtain me
to leave the god to be near
"Closer," Nine Inch Nails.

Here's one:

I was with the hurricane of gather and really born, which concerns me my ma of the operating rain, gas, now, which you howled to everything! But completely the right. I am the sharp gas of the jumping Steckfassung!

English --> Japanese --> English --> German --> English
(disclaimer: I modified the original to expand one contraction out into its constituent parts because Babelfish didn't seem to understand the apostrophe.)

And another!

My loneliness is slaughter should it recognizes, I consider always when I am not with you i I lose my spirit me I give a signal I strike the baby of more taxes

English --> French --> Greek --> English
(And again, I expanded a contraction so that it wouldn't stick out.)
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Jumpin' Jack Flash for the first one
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No one got my "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley :(
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Okay, this one is not hard, but it's still funny. English-->Japanese-->English-->Korean-->English


It, about it about it is late in loss
and your this without you of my religion
which is I of the spot light
which is sticking or the corner rises
I havent I maintains and, comes it, does not know
I where a fact about Ive where does not know about me
and does not attempt, remainder and thought enough
in order to say and the laugh which thinks me who your
this think me who observe you in it in order to be a song I hearing
thought listened you whom attempts in me
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REM, "Losing My Religion." That's weird how that one worked.
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Generic wrote:REM, "Losing My Religion." That's weird how that one worked.
I strongly suspect that Michael Stipe uses this method to write a lot of his lyrics in the first place
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Generic wrote: My loneliness is slaughter should it recognizes, I consider always when I am not with you i I lose my spirit me I give a signal I strike the baby of more taxes
Easy. That's Schlag Mich Baby Noch Einmal by the Wise Guys
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Wow. Bonus points for that video.
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Märk wrote:No one got my "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley :(
Sorry, man, didn't even see it until just now. If it makes you feel any better, my wife stared at it for about five minutes, and then when I started singing it, she ran and hid under the covers.

Apparently, she hates Rick Astley even more than she hates Octothorpe.
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Good god, did this get butchered (English->Korean->English)

In compliance with the swimming pool again happened. Fool, again is incorrect. The hooligan the fur which ignites and regurg' ed beverages how much offensive odor puts the grill together above and try to think acorn and put the leather like Liz Claiborne where is put above is thick in undertone. To pass over and phase in big fear, cooks a reverse in order to discover homie Todd the meat falling normality which comfort in order to hold! Me " [map] Death by fire says, façade you who are cruel meet from in wakefulness me? " Me Stellas too many & Was; They did the total green onion [sak] the green onion [sak];
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Generic wrote:
Märk wrote:No one got my "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley :(
Sorry, man, didn't even see it until just now. If it makes you feel any better, my wife stared at it for about five minutes, and then when I started singing it, she ran and hid under the covers.

Apparently, she hates Rick Astley even more than she hates Octothorpe.
That's a dealbreaker!
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Niveous wrote:Good god, did this get butchered (English->Korean->English)

In compliance with the swimming pool again happened. Fool, again is incorrect. The hooligan the fur which ignites and regurg' ed beverages how much offensive odor puts the grill together above and try to think acorn and put the leather like Liz Claiborne where is put above is thick in undertone. To pass over and phase in big fear, cooks a reverse in order to discover homie Todd the meat falling normality which comfort in order to hold! Me " [map] Death by fire says, façade you who are cruel meet from in wakefulness me? " Me Stellas too many & Was; They did the total green onion [sak] the green onion [sak];
Did you expect any MC Frontalot lyrics to come out right being translated back from Korean? Gotta admit, that is indeed worse-mangled than many of the lyrics in this thread.
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That was bad. This may be worse, but that's partially due to the source material. :)
(English->Japanese->English)

The bomb Hollywood entire world where the nucleus boobjobs which it flies to Tokyo, moves [yakuza] has been attached us who the present time buy us as for me who force those in order to look at our handmade pornos as for me who am angel Venus of the blue jeans where I am the movie star of God it possesses the power which is the extreme star which I do not stop under any condition, therefore if it extracts your sword, those of the fire increases in the heaven and the envelope shoots the rainbow from your eyeball hole when your name you shout, the other coelom and your voice seem like the thunder simultaneously!
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Niveous wrote:the nucleus boobjobs
Hello new band name!!!
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interestingly enough, i tried a similar thing with google translate, but it was far too understandable. sheesh, google, don't you know the comedic value of mistranslations? them and their correctness!
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I guess my previous quote was too obscure. It was WreckdoM's "Clause 5, Sub paragraph D".

The original:
Let’s fly to Tokyo and run the yakuza
Bomb Hollywood with nuclear boobjobs
The entire world will buy us presents
We’ll force them to watch our homemade pornos

I am a movie star I am a god
You are a an angel Venus in blue jeans
I am a super star I’ll never stop
You have the power, so unsheathe your sword and raise it to the heavens and envelope them in fire and shoot rainbows from your eye sockets and other body cavities and your voice is like thunder as you scream your name!

Here's another one. This time, not SF-related (English to Chinese to English):

Does not obtain your diamond ring that gift don' the t method any does not go to a your fancy automobile you to know you' Girl; About does not go to my luminous star to obtain a your hill house to look like you girl to need the true matter to want from the heart to obtain your some everything special girl It' s my box's spying, my box girl's It' Spying; s my box's spying, my box girl's spying
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Niveous wrote:Does not obtain your diamond ring that gift don' the t method any does not go to a your fancy automobile you to know you' Girl; About does not go to my luminous star to obtain a your hill house to look like you girl to need the true matter to want from the heart to obtain your some everything special girl It' s my box's spying, my box girl's It' Spying; s my box's spying, my box girl's spying
haha, that's dick in a box, right?
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Correct.

Here's another English to Japanese to English:
Calling that comeback, doing the damage which shakes my equal person and the fact that the suction cup is placed in I fear where there is here between many years ones where is not good like the monsoon the rain goes does to get off silent boom, hear in the explosion competition which overwhelms, I when dropping these lyrical poems to which I who am remarkable have the stare policeman of challenge call destroying the store, improve movement, you do not have to compare, I to remainder slice in order to obtain entirely, the case the competition which is cut in the eye has paid price
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This made me say WTF (English/Korean). It's easy to guess but a fantastic butchering:

The old flat top in compliance with him comes from here and comes and slowly in joo-joo eyeballs which get him him, he which sells the roller comfort defect which 1 is holy drops the head to his knee and gets what the he only and he which gets the fact that is a person who jokes does not move and him the toe him which does not wear the low shoes light which gets the soccer which does not to make be him which gets the monkey finger where he shoots Coca-Cola " Says; Me your you me who am knowing " Is knowing; Thing I 1 you this am free and i get and you wearing out the thing i say and comes now together to good me him the production where he gets the hippocampus gum boot he which puts in the sack in O anyone cupboard that 1 vertebral cracker, he which does not get drops the foot to the lower part of his knee and you whom he gets catches you from his armchair which is the possibility of feeling the fact that this his disease comes now together to me him the roller coaster him which gets the early warning in the mud water him 1 mojo filters he which gets " Says; One and one and person 3 " Is; Is good and gets ' Sample; Causal he sees, now together to quite hard me comes
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HeuristicsInc wrote:interestingly enough, i tried a similar thing with google translate, but it was far too understandable. sheesh, google, don't you know the comedic value of mistranslations? them and their correctness!
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Thread revival time!!!

English --> Korean --> English

As usual, a contraction was expanded out, because Babelfish has problems translating words like "He's," "She's," "It's," and "We're."

Her the good young girl love Jesus who is her mother whom loves and her boyfriend she reaches about Elvis as well and the love end which is a young girl and as well also the United States.
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