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3quarksdaily: Found In Translation Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:30 PM PDT June 04, 2012Found In TranslationI have taken several famous political passages from American History and run them repeatedly through Google Translator. I present them here in verse form. An explanation follows, but first, please enjoy these poems. Join the Team (The Declaration of Independence: Opening) Self-Evident Truth: Hynaur (Declaration of Independence) A More Perfect Union (Preamble to the Constitution) The Right Combination (Second Amendment to the Constitution) Moving On (Second Amendment to the Constitution) Better control of the military security, to keep and bear arms, free country, people are right, it is necessary it is no longer the case. The Color it Was Before (15th Amendment to the Constitution) Rejected (19th Amendment to the Constitution) How These Poems were Constructed I cut and pasted various pieces of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution into Google Translator. After entering a piece of text, I then set about translating it relentlessly through multiple languages. I typically translated a document 10-20 different times, never repeating any language during a single document's translation process. I always began with the original English text, and always concluded in English to get the text you see here. Other than the final translation of each piece back into English, I never used English as a translating language during the process. Most documents went through the translation process only once, though "Join the Team" and "The Color it was Before" were run twice; in each case the documents came out excessively jumbled the first time, and a second effort produced a more coherent translation The poems you see here are the exact text produced on final translation back into English. The only modifications were some minor tweaking of punctuation, case, and the breaking lines of text to approximate blank verse. -- Akim Reinhardt blogs regularly at The Public Professor. Posted by Akim Reinhardt at 12:30 AM | Permalink |
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