{"id":298,"date":"2014-02-15T13:43:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2014-02-15T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:05:58","slug":"chinese-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever played the &#8220;Telephone&#8221; game as a kid, where you whisper a message into a person&#8217;s ear, which is passed around a circle of people and see if it remains the same at the end of the line?<\/p>\n<p>Boredom compelled me to turn to Google translate for amusement.  Using the online translator as a &#8220;Telephone&#8221; game, I started with a sentence in English, ran it through the application in several languages and then back into English.  It&#8217;s interesting to see how well the original meaning of the English sentence holds up through numerous translation swappings.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens:<\/p>\n<p>English &#8211; &#8220;There is no good music here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>German &#8211; Es gibt keine gute Musik hier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate1-300x127.png\" alt=\"googletranslate1\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate1-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate1-624x264.png 624w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate1.png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spanish &#8211; No hay buena m\u00fasica aqu\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese &#8211; \u3053\u3053\u306b\u306f\u826f\u3044\u97f3\u697d\u306f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate2-300x127.png\" alt=\"googletranslate2\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate2-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate2-624x264.png 624w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate2.png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russian &#8211; \u0422\u0430\u043c \u043d\u0435\u0442 \u0445\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0448\u0435\u0439 \u043c\u0443\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0438 \u0437\u0434\u0435\u0441\u044c.<\/p>\n<p>Greek &#8211; \u0394\u03b5\u03bd \u03c5\u03c0\u03ac\u03c1\u03c7\u03b5\u03b9 \u03ba\u03b1\u03bb\u03ae \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5\u03c3\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u03b5\u03b4\u03ce.<\/p>\n<p>Polish &#8211; Nie ma dobra muzyka tutaj.<\/p>\n<p>Bengali &#8211; \u098f\u0996\u09be\u09a8\u09c7 \u0995\u09cb\u09a8 \u09ad\u09be\u09b2 \u09ae\u09bf\u0989\u099c\u09bf\u0995 \u09aa\u09b0\u09cd\u09af\u09a8\u09cd\u09a4.<\/p>\n<p>Slovenian &#8211; Ni dobra glasba.<\/p>\n<p>Vietnamese &#8211; Kh\u00f4ng c\u00f3 \u00e2m nh\u1ea1c t\u1ed1t.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese &#8211; N\u00e3o h\u00e1 boa m\u00fasica.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish &#8211; Det \u00e4r bra musik.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese &#8211; \u9019\u662f\u5f88\u597d\u7684\u97f3\u6a02\u3002<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate4-300x127.png\" alt=\"googletranslate4\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate4-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate4-624x264.png 624w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate4.png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arabic &#8211; \u0627\u0646\u0647\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u0633\u064a\u0642\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u064a\u062f\u0629.<\/p>\n<p>Hmong &#8211; Nws yog zoo suab paj nruag.<\/p>\n<p>Gujarati &#8211; \u0aa4\u0ac7 \u0ab8\u0abe\u0ab0\u0abe \u0ab8\u0a82\u0a97\u0ac0\u0aa4 \u0a9b\u0ac7.<\/p>\n<p>English &#8211; It&#8217;s good music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate5-300x127.png\" alt=\"googletranslate5\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate5-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate5-624x264.png 624w, https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/googletranslate5.png 822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever played the &#8220;Telephone&#8221; game as a kid, where you whisper a message into a person&#8217;s ear, which is passed around a circle of people and see if it remains the same at the end of the line? Boredom compelled me to turn to Google translate for amusement. Using the online translator as a &#8220;Telephone&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,45,47,46],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amusement","tag-google","tag-language","tag-translate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bitterblacktea.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}