From JFK’s Inaugural Address

Translated from English to Spanish, and back to English…
My citizens of the companion of the world, ask not what America for you will do, but what together we can do for the freedom of the man. Finally, if you are citizen of America or citizen of the world, he requests of us here the same [...]

Star Mangled Banner

This week’s translation is an English to Spanish, and back to English translation of The Star Spangled Banner. Thank you, Altavista.

Opinion of Or, can you see,
by the early light of the dawn,
what we hailed so proud in flashing
so galantemente last of the shining
twilight,
that ample rays and stars,
with the dangerous fight,
Óver flowed the [...]

Gettysburg Address: The Remix

This week I used the handy Altavista – Babel Fish Translator  to translate a portion of Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address into German, and then back into English.
Before four notch and seven years our fathers further gotten on this continent, a new nation, understood in the liberty and the affair inaugurated that all men are caused [...]

The Pledge

I thought I would test out an on-line translator (http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr). What follows is the American Pledge of Allegiance–translated from English to Italian and then back to English. Enjoy.
“Engagement the allegiance to the small flag of the joined one I declare of the America and to the Republic to which it corresponds, one nation under [...]