Comedy Break: Second Amendment Translation Party!

Translation Party is a website that lets you, the intrepid Internet Explorer, type an English phrase into the empty text box (oh, see how empty, how hungry it is, hungry for your words!) Then Translation Party translates your text into Japanese. O, but the magick is only begun! Then it translates that Japanese text back to English, and repeats this process until the translation stops changing: “equilibrium is reached,” as Translation Party puts it. I got the idea to feed it that already controversial nugget of English writing, the Second Amendment.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
into Japanese
また、民兵規制自由国家の安全保障に必要に応じて、人々の権利を維持し、武器を、侵害してはならない。
back into English
Also, if necessary to the security of a free state militia regulations, and maintain the rights of people, weapons, and should not be infringed.
back into Japanese
また、フリーの状態の民兵の規制の安全保障に、必要かつ維持する人々 、兵器の権利、および侵害してはならない。
back into English
In addition, the security of a free state militia regulations, and people need to maintain our right to arms, and not in violation.
back into Japanese
また、フリーの状態の民兵の規制は、セキュリティ、そして人々に違反して武器を、当社の権利ではなく、維持する必要があります。
back into English
The free-state militia regulations, security, weapons and people in violation, rather than our rights must be maintained.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器や違反の人々ではなく、我々の権利を維持する必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and violation of people rather than people, we must maintain the right.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人々の違反の人々ではなく、我々は権利を維持する必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people who violate the people rather than people, we must maintain the right.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、安全保障、核兵器とは人々ではなく、人々に違反する人が、我々は権利を維持する必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people who violate our rights must be maintained.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人々ではなく、私たちの権利を侵害する人が維持される必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people, must be maintained to violate the rights of our people.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人、人ではなく、私たちの人々の権利を侵害するために維持される必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people, our people we must be maintained in order to violate the rights of.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人、人ではなく、我々の順序での権利を侵害するために維持する必要があります我々 。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people, we must maintain our in order to violate the rights of the people.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人、人ではなく、我々のための人々の権利を侵害を維持する必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people, we need people to maintain our rights violations.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人、人ではなく、われわれは、人権侵害を維持する必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people, we need to maintain human rights abuses.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人、人ではなく、我々の人権侵害を維持する必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people, we need to maintain human rights violations.
back into Japanese
フリーの状態の民兵の規制、セキュリティ、武器と人、人ではなく、我々の人権侵害を維持する必要があります。
back into English
Free state militia regulations, security, weapons and people, not people, we need to maintain human rights violations.

Additional note: The Translation Party result tends to mutate over time, unpredictably. The first time I tried it, some months ago, it insisted we not infringe the right to keep nuclear weapons.

Feeling that perhaps this was not enough to hang a post on, I did another Translation Party of the sentence

“Visitors used TripAdvisor to complain of pokey, smelly rooms, stained bedding, mouldy walls, and beds ‘like park benches’

from the Daily Mail article on perhaps the filthiest hotel in Europe. I’m rather impressed how hard the Translation Party website tried to sell the hotel room:

“Bed ‘smell attractive to tourists and moldy walls Benchipoki’ park for bedding TripAdvisor has stained glass windows in the room used.”

So now I was dying to know what it thought of this headline:

Actor Rip Torn, 78, arrested after he broke into a U.S. bank drunk with a loaded revolver

and I was not disappointed:

“Later, he was in the United States, the actor Rip Torn, 78, in the name of the drink, with a gun to the beat of the bank, has been arrested.”

In the name of the drink!