gutroch - July 9th, 2009

08:54 pm - Mockery for multitaskers

     Here's a game for your next house party: go to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/, open a new tab and find Sarah Palin's resignation speech (linked in my last entry), and copy and paste it into the first box.  Pick a language and go - I suggest Russian, so she'll be able to see the translation from her front porch.
    Then the really fun part: highlight and copy whatever comes out as the translation.  Then clear the "translate again" box and paste in Palin's new speech.  Set the website to translate it back into whatever language you started with and press go.
    After you can breathe again, try it with some of her other speeches and interviews, Bush press conferences, anything Dan Quayle said, etc.  It's almost better when you start with something coherent so you can tell the difference when you've finished - centuries-old Shakespearean jokes and innuendo become amazing.  Enjoy.

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