Comments | scooterbird: What you say?

scooterbird

What you say?

May 01, 2005 01:13

Gacked from dragonscholar and maiku84:

Take the refrain of a well-known song. Put it through Babelfish in the following manner, then post the results in your LJ for people to guess: English -> German, German -> French, French -> Portuguese, Portuguese -> English.I was really thinking that these would be a lot harder to figure out, but perhaps I wasn't too creative in ( Read more... )

general weirdness, meme

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scooterbird May 2 2005, 02:01:06 UTC

Correct on both, though I was actually using Dylan's original.

alex_everhere May 2 2005, 04:36:49 UTC

*sigh* well-known is such a subjective term, isn't it?

scooterbird May 2 2005, 20:54:05 UTC

You don't think "I Wanna Be Sedated" and "All Along the Watchtower" are well-known?

alex_everhere May 3 2005, 19:29:10 UTC

yes, those are the two i got. what about the other 3?

People called "Romanes", they go to the house? scooterbird May 4 2005, 17:05:55 UTC

2. "New Orleans is Sinking", The Tragically Hip
3. "He Got Game", Public Enemy
5. "Is She Really Going Out With Him?", Joe Jackson

I have no idea what happened with that last one. By the time it was in French, the verb somehow became expirer and it went from there.

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