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Lorem Ipsum translated by Google
- makmanalp 13y agoI was going to jump in and suggest that google's statistical translation methods were being thrown off by lipsum being used in so many strange contexts, but it turns out "Lorem Ipsum" is a mangled nonsensical version of the original text: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum#History_and_discovery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum#History_and_discove...
- pepijndevos 13y agoThe original is translated much better.
- cpaone 13y agoThank you. 'Lorem Ipsum' isn't Latin. Translation tools, dictionaries, or your old high school text books are not going to help you 'get it right.' This is probably an Easter Egg.
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- agnokapathetic 13y agoGoogle Translate uses statistical machine translation [1] seeded from a gigantic automatically curated parallel corpus of similar documents. As"lorem ipsum" is a typographic placeholder, the filled in version appears appears to have the same document structure (HTML) and would therefore be statistically likely candidates as translatable pairs. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PzPDRPwlA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_PzPDRPwlA
- bbx 13y agoOddly, "Vestibulum ante ipsum primis" translates to "Cisco Security", although taking each word separately translates to "Manufacturing before football first". I don't remember much about my Latin year but if each word has a different meaning depending upon what other word it's combined to, the possibilities are endless.
- mjn 13y agoBecause of Google's approach based strictly on statistical regularities, words can completely change translations based on context even in languages where that wouldn't normally happen, because the contexts can swing the estimates. One funny one comes with city names, where Google sometimes mistakenly "translates" a city to a different city that happens to have frequent usage in the target language, in contexts that it must find analogous. For example, here are some translations involving the Danish city Billund (location of Lego), which change even based on punctuation: Billund -> Billund Jeg er i Billund -> I am in Billund Jeg er i Billund. -> I'm in London. For whatever reason, intriguing place-name translations are particularly common in the Danish->English case. Brøndby is often Red Sox, Odense is Kentucky, and Hillerød is sometimes Whatfield.
- nknighthb 13y agoNow I'm imagining an automated translation of a story from, say, the Star Trek universe to the Star Wars universe, substituting place and character names based on frequency of use in each universe.
- epochwolf 13y agoBad idea. Star Trek stories are horrid quality compared to Star Wars.[1] Do Star Wars to Star Trek. ;) 1: Based on my own experience. I've read at least 50% of the available Star Trek books and 75% of Star Wars. I've got maybe four Star Trek books I've liked and dozens of Star Wars ones.
- cema 13y ago
- aasarava 13y agoIn case you're interested in learning more, or just having a quick lorem ipsum generator: http://lipsum.com http://lipsum.com
- d33n 13y agoand in combination with nknighthb's comment you get this: http://www.rikeripsum.com/ http://www.rikeripsum.com/
- gknoy 13y agoThank you for this. Not only is it thoroughly entertaining, but the source code is fairly helpful. :)
- wolfhumble 13y agoOr go for "An all-around better Lorem Ipsum experience": http://lorem2.com/ http://lorem2.com/
- lemieux 13y agoIt was generated with that site.
- jfg 13y agoalso, this is much more useful that you'd think: http://dferg.us/lipsum-text-workflow-for-alfred-2/ http://dferg.us/lipsum-text-workflow-for-alfred-2/
- MostAwesomeDude 13y agoI'm obligated to chime in: http://airbr.us/h/tipsum http://airbr.us/h/tipsum
- jdmitch 13y agoSurely there has been some manipulating of the search results (this non-standard version of) Lorem Ipsum to get those results form google translate. A more standard Lorem Ipsum text comes up with a pretty standard translation (it actually seems to revert to the original Ciceronian text which it is based on).
- lemieux 13y agoIt was generated on this site : http://www.lipsum.com/ http://www.lipsum.com/
- diiq 13y agoI think the corpus of latin/english translations is not large enough, because the translation of even the basest schoolboy latin seems mangled; different declensions of the same word get different translations. 'Ancilla' [female slave, I was taught] is translated: maid, handmaiden, women, and ancillary, depending on declension?
- haberman 13y agoOh, I think I can shed some light on this! Never studied Latin but I sing a lot of church music. The very popular "Magnificat" text in Latin in includes the line: quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae. This is traditionally translated as: Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid; Or: For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificat . In context, Mary is definitely not talking about being a slave, but a willing servant.
- delinka 13y agoI can't decide if this is a result of Google's use of statistical machine translation, or an Easter Egg.
- tomp 13y agoAlso, please note that "lorem" is translated as "China", and "ipsum" is translated as "footbal". At least for me.
- piqufoh 13y agoDuly noted.
- TillE 13y agoIt's just nonsense. The actual translation of "football" will be obvious once you see it: http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediludium http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediludium Pediludium, literally "foot-game". And ipsum means "itself": http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ipsum http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ipsum Google really needed to seed their Latin translator with a basic dictionary before letting it pick up crap on the internet.
- b0rsuk 13y agoThis is a wonderful "correct horse battery staple" password generator !!
- tehwalrus 13y agonot anymore...
- b0rsuk 13y agoI don't mean literally with Lorem Ipsum - you can use Google Translate to transform any piece of text into gibberish. When in doubt, translate back.
- tehwalrus 13y agono no, I know. I'm only teasing :)
- mikeash 13y agoStill, probably best not to feed every password to Google.
- eksith 13y agoI'm fairly certain Google already knows almost every password considering most are rubbish and Google Books has been around in one form or another since at least 2004. Also : https://www.google.com/search?q=password+list https://www.google.com/search?q=password+list
- dllthomas 13y agoIt will have poor entropy, appearances to the contrary. Don't use this method.
- kamakazizuru 13y agoI wonder why Cisco Security is in there?
- dllthomas 13y agoCisco Security has been vital since ancient times, obviously there would be Latin for it.
- fennecfoxen 13y agoIndeed! Cisco Security saved the ancient Republic from the Cataline rebellion, delivering famous orations. "Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? Quem ad finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?" No, wait, that was Cicero. My bad.
- Fistandantilus 13y agoImportant to note is that Lorem Ipsum is not correct Latin, and many words have been removed or changed slightly, such as "adipiscing", which is not a real Latin word.
- JonnieCache 13y agoIt's obviously been crawling support tickets/emails with people complaining about non-forthcoming copy: How long before any meaningful development. Until mandatory functional requirements to developers. We've all been there in one form or another. Those of us that do client work anyway.
- m0nty 13y agoIt's free verse, from the living, beating heart of the Internet. All those support tickets have developed a special kind of pathos: How long before any meaningful development. Until mandatory functional requirements to developers. But across the country in the spotlight in the notebook. The show was shot.
- stackcollision 13y agoI wonder if this is how they came up with the dialog for the Hybrids in Battlestar Galactica.
- hawkharris 13y agoI never knew Google had a "Translate to Allen Ginsberg" option.
- derscheister 13y agoBest comment ever :D
- derleth 13y agoReminds me more of Dutch Schultz: http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dutch.html http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dutch.html
- juhanima 13y agoIt doesn't. By definition, translation should not add meaning, just preserve the original. It is not possible to turn an arbitrary text into poetry by any mechanical means. A poem by Ginsberg or any other good poet is the densest medium of communication. The message may be a bit ambiguous, but the mean rate of reception is still high: You tend to love it or hate it.
- hawkharris 13y agoI can't tell if you're joking. If you're being serious, though, I think you took my comment too literally. :)
- tenpoundhammer 13y agoThe best part, "Information that is no corporate Japan."
- josteink 13y agoI was about to post that exact same thing. "Information that is no corporate Japan". You can definitely say that again.
- kps 13y agoI commented [1] in a previous version of this [2] that you get amusing character-by-character changes typing into the text box by hand. The results are slightly different today. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5201472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5201472 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200728
- ruswick 13y agoThis sort of incoherence really isn't unexpected, considering that Lorem Ipsum is not a piece of coherent text, but rather a series of sentence fragments and even fragments of words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
- paxtonab 13y agoThis almost sent me furiously scrambling for my high school Latin text book. Almost...
- josscrowcroft 13y agoOh God I really hope people start using this in place of Lorem Ipsum.
- dhruvtv 13y agoNailed it.
- tomphoolery 13y agoThe English translation is way better. :P
- TurplePurtle 13y agoFunny lion always feasible, innovative policies hatred assured. Seems like commentary on the fall of ancient reddit.
- Simple1234 13y agoInnovative policies, hatred assured.
- andrewflnr 13y agoI really wish this would become a meme.
- jwarren 13y agoLorem ipsum is frequently misrepresented as nonsense text. It's not actually the case: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2290/what-does-the-filler-text-lorem-ipsum-mean http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2290/what-does-the-...
- dimitar 13y agoIt is nonsense - the text was altered - with modified, added and removed words, that make it nonsense. This is why the latin translator doesn't translate it. It is based though on a Cicero text.
- TheCoelacanth 13y agoIt's not completely nonsense, but it definitely doesn't have any coherent meaning. It started as an excerpt from Cicero but it was mangled by removing words and letters without regard for sentence structure or even for preserving words. Some of the words aren't even real Latin words.
- chrisbuc 13y agoThe "Alpha" mouseover notes of the Latin translator "This language is still in early stages of development..." Really? I thought it had been around for a while... :)
- Apocryphon 13y ago"We will be sure to post a comment." I thought that was a sign that this was an intentionally unserious translation that an engineer snuck in as an Easter Egg. Though it's a bit more absurdist than Google's usual brand of humor.
- willurd 13y agoI read this like spoken word poetry. It was quite amusing.
- andrewflnr 13y agoIt's not an easter egg, at least not in the sense that it's special-cased to that one chunk of text. It worked with some arbitrary lorem ipsum I generated from lipsum.com . I think this one might actually be funnier: http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Aliquam%20viverra%20mattis%20lorem%2C%20non%20volutpat%20nulla%20dapibus%20vitae.%20Duis%20tempus%20elit%20augue%2C%20porta%20hendrerit%20libero%20placerat%20ut.%20Mauris%20id%20nisl%20non%20metus%20suscipit%20vehicula.%20Vestibulum%20consequat%20accumsan%20lorem%20nec%20molestie.%20Donec%20convallis%20augue%20ac%20bibendum%20dapibus.%20Pellentesque%20non%20sapien%20accumsan%2C%20posuere%20augue%20id%2C%20ullamcorper%20erat.%20Nulla%20molestie%20quam%20nec%20ullamcorper%20convallis http://translate.google.com/#auto/en/Aliquam%20viverra%20mat....
- jvdh 13y agoThis is not the traditional text of Lorem Ipsum, save for the first sentence. The actual translation is far less exciting. The only thing I noticed it that it translates something with "train" while I don't think a word for that exists in Latin. Actual Lorem Ipsum [0]: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. Actual translation in Google Translate: http://bit.ly/127UkCu http://bit.ly/127UkCu [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum
- tricolon 13y agoFor some reason, "aute irure" is translated as "bullet train"; however, neither of them are Latin words.
- gren 13y agoAnd "cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur." is "that produces no resultant online applications." WTF!
- laumars 13y agoIIRC Google Translate doesn't work as a straight "word swap" like other tarnslation tools perhaps do. Google Translate works in a similar way to their search engine in that common phrases and works on popular sites are compared and probable meaning are. This is why names celebrities sometimes get translated by the names of their peers[1] and why the pseudo-Latin in Lorem Ipsum translates. [1] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100905144430AAoZbdu http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100905144430AA... (I know it's a terrible source, but it's the only link I could find)
- b3h3moth 13y agoonce upon a time "news for hackers" ...