What is Babelfish?
1.
(1) This fish insterted into the ear to obtain multi-lingual powers in the highly acclaimed book "The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy"
(2) Undoubtably the best automatic language studies homework machine ever invented
That assignment will only take me 5 minutes, i'll just babelfish it!
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2.
The best translator possible indeed. Take a look as I translate the expression "fuck you" back and forth from English to French.
"Fuck you"
English to French
"Va te faire foutre" (Fair enough. It's right.)
French to English
"Get stuffed" (I'm sorry?)
English to French
Obtenez bourré (The previous was meant as in "Go get yourself stuffed." This... thing here says something in the lines of: "Receive stuffed," which doesn't really make sense.)
French to English
Obtain stuffed
There you are. Babelfish tells you that another way of telling someone to go fuck him/herself is "obtain stuffed."
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To translate a document badly, i.e., translate the individual words in the document with no sense of the overall meaning.
I can't make sense of these instructions at all. They must have just babelfished them from the original Japanese.
