Lost in Translation

I discover that people are travelling a lot these days. Must be due to the cheap air fare promotion by MAS and Air Asia.

Swine Flu? A(H1N1) Flu? What Flu?

Catfish and I almost booked a flight to Vietnam or Bangkok. But plan fail..  

Never mind, next time then..

Anyway in this season of travel, I’m sure a lot of people are doing some research or maybe learning a few of the destination language.

So have you found a website containing all the information you want but in foreign language? What’s the tool you use to translate?

I was playing around with Babel fish the other day. I wanted to test it’s effectiveness and accuracy.

Let’s try with the most important phrase during travelling especially for the ladies.

“How much?”

Guys might find it useful too. You can sneak behind your girlfriend and test the waters before deciding to bring her to the shop or lead her to another street.

So here goes..

Step 1 : English to Japanese. OK.

Step 2: To test it’s effectiveness, I copied the answer given and translate it to English.

Which Rank is not How much!!

Step 3: To test it’s accuracy, I put “Which Rank” for translation.

To which I got the answer Smell Which?

I wonder if the Japanese will understand me when I show them Which Rank? or Smell which?

Let’s say in a situation of a bachelor looking for partners in Japan:

Hot Bachelor A: (thinking) I wonder how much is her? Let me show her my copied phrase from Babel Fish.

*Proceed to show どの位か。

Kawaai Girl B:  F!!

Hot Bachelor A: ??? Maybe she didn’t get me.

*Proceed to show 臭いどれか。

Kawaai Girl B: Everywhere can smell! Very Good. (In Japanese of course)

Hot Bachelor A: ??? (Still waiting for some kind of numbers) Forget it. I don’t get you.

Unknowingly, Bachelor A had gotten all the answers he needs.  Maybe except the price.

 

To be fair, I tried Google translate.

Not much help either.

First attempt at nibble tech,

PW…