OriginalMixed“Said the captain to the sewing machine repairman: Make it sew!”
“The commander of Druzhina told the tailor to sew himself!”
English → Slovak → Dari → Batak Simalungun → Belarusian → Chinese (Literary) → Abkhaz → Maithili → English
Wow, from a Star Trek pun to a harsh insult from a Soviet neighborhood watchman!
OriginalMixed“He collected rare and unusual cheeses as a form of emotional support.”
“He collected a variety of sids and various sids to support the spirit.”
English → Shona → Bashkir → Lao → French (Canada) → Irish → Welsh → Ganda → English
OriginalMixed“Snooper and Blabber is one of the three component segments of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. The 45 individual shorts were produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions between September 19, 1959 and October 20, 1961.”
“"Endless Scrutiny and Talk" is one of three volumes of the "Emergency Response Plan." Forty-five short stories, serialized from December 19, 1959 to October 20, 1961.”
English → Ewe → Malayalam → Khmer → Odia (Oriya) → Kurdish (Sorani) → Bhojpuri → Luo → Lingala → Chinese (Literary) → Ndebele (South) → English
I'm not sure how non-stop analysis and blabber is part of any emergency response plan, but this is translation mixing at its finest!
OriginalMixed“You can tell it's a dogwood tree from its bark.”
“You can tell it's a nostalgic tree on the top of a dog.”
English → Klingon → English
Ah, good old Klingon, mangling words and creating strange visuals.
OriginalMixed“Being Short not have any problem”
“It's good to be small.”
English → Kyrgyz → Arabic → Amharic → Hindi → Klingon → Fijian → Filipino → Assamese → Khmer → Bhojpuri → English
OriginalMixed“Are you are you come to the tree the strong are way are weak are here said if a valley.”
“Have you ever seen a weak, rough road or a tree with a pond?”
English → Kashmiri → Bikol → Manipuri → Swahili → Spanish → Tigrinya → Chhattisgarhi → Bambara → Danish → Bodo → English
The original got a little lost in translation, but the mixed version is priceless!
OriginalMixed“She missed the deadline because she had a lot on her plate.”
“He said there was still much to be done, and it was impossible.”
English → Khmer → Ganda → Kurdish (Kurmanji) → Guarani → Dzongkha → Japanese → Nepalbhasa (Newari) → English
OriginalMixed“What's up? idk tbh, lol. brb, omw rn. hmu l8r, ok?”
“How are you? Actually, I don't know at all, haha. I'll be right back, God, and then I'll be done. Call me back in a while, please?”
English → Polish → Italian → Faroese → Croatian → Fijian → Georgian → Belarusian → Awadhi → German → Malagasy → English
IDK what happened, but, LOL
OriginalMixed“Spiders crawling up your back, snakes slithering down.”
“Claws snap behind you and grass falls to the ground.”
English → Turkish → Bambara → Betawi → Tigrinya → Dzongkha → Swati → Persian → Yucatec Maya → French (Canada) → Russian → English
OriginalMixed“Lately, I've been feeling out of my mind.”
“I want to wear vegetables.”
English → Haitian Creole → Welsh → Serbian → Tongan → Tswana → Frisian → Faroese → Querétaro Otomi → Bambara → Quechua → English
Hmm, this seems pretty accurate...
OriginalMixed“ahem”
“morning”
English → Acehnese → Acholi → Abkhaz → Afrikaans → Albanian → Alur → Amharic → Arabic → Armenian → Assamese → English
OriginalMixed“Too many cooks spoil the broth.”
“A lot of bakers damage the cake.”
English → Kiga → Klingon → English
OriginalMixed“I won livestock.”
“I'm the only one who does.”
English → Limburgish → Irish → Afrikaans → Kapampangan → Tigrinya → Dutch → Spanish → Sindhi → Rundi → Punjabi (Gurmukhi) → English
OriginalMixed“Is the juice worth the squeeze?”
“Should we wash with water?”
English → Yiddish → Ewe → Zulu → Tsonga → Assamese → Filipino → Yoruba → Javanese → Swati → English
OriginalMixed“She was trying to boil the ocean.”
“He wanted to make fish.”
English → Kinyarwanda → Minang → Mizo → Sepedi → Dinka → Abkhaz → Xhosa → Welsh → Yucatec Maya → English
OriginalMixed“Don't bite the hand that feeds you.”
“The whole world is a mess.”
English → Bosnian → Telugu → Kituba → Basque → Bashkir → Buryat → Bhojpuri → Dombe → Dutch → English
OriginalMixed“After a number of injections, my jaw got number.”
“After I took the pills, I became a hundred times taller.”
English → Bosnian → Telugu → Kituba → Basque → Bashkir → Buryat → Bhojpuri → Dombe → Dutch → English
OriginalMixed“We hereby declare this couch the official napping zone of the household.”
“We designated the couch as the official family room.”
English → Mizo → Minang → Latgalian → Guarani → Malay → Pangasinan → English
OriginalMixed“When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.”
“When the guns were fired, the pigeons also rang their bells.”
English → Crimean Tatar → Hebrew → Silesian → Bemba → Chichewa → Danish → Sango → Samoan → Tatar → English
OriginalMixed“He threw a wrench into the entire operation.”
“All surgeries are performed with one hand.”
English → Haitian Creole → Tajik → Hungarian → Batak Simalungun → Alur → Chinese (Simplified) → Konkani → English
OriginalMixed“Hold your horses — we don't have horses, so hold whatever you've got.”
“Bring our horses home—we have no horses left, so we need to protect the horses we have.”
English → Haitian Creole → Tajik → Hungarian → Batak Simalungun → Alur → Chinese (Simplified) → Konkani → English
OriginalMixed“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”
“Curiosity is a bad habit, joy revives it.”
English → Macedonian → Bashkir → Acholi → Dutch → French → Indonesian → Azerbaijani → English
OriginalMixed“The bandage was wound around the wound.”
“His face was covered with wounds.”
English → Sepedi → Latvian → Scots Gaelic → Luxembourgish → Swedish → Lombard → Meadow Mari → Slovak → Urdu → English
OriginalMixed“Becoming a vegetarian was a big missed steak.”
“Being a meat lover has been a huge missed opportunity when it comes to pork.”
English → Mizo → Afrikaans → Dutch → Maltese → Catalan → Rundi → Dombe → Persian → Crimean Tatar → Quechua → English
OriginalMixed“Becoming a vegetarian was a big missed steak.”
“I like steak because it is vegetarian.”
English → Tatar → Sesotho → Hiligaynon → Ewe → Ga → Kapampangan → Hindi → English
OriginalMixed“To live is the rarest thing in the world; most people just exist.”
“Living things are the most precious thing in the world; most people are there.”
English → Filipino → Scots Gaelic → Silesian → Macedonian → Hebrew → Awadhi → Slovak → Kapampangan → Lao → English
OriginalMixed“To live is the rarest thing in the world; most people just exist.”
“Life is the shortest thing in the world; this is the opinion of most people.”
English → Quechua → Arabic → Hungarian → Croatian → Hindi → Kannada → Finnish → English
OriginalMixed“I regret being silly”
“Sorry, the car is mine.”
English → Kurdish (Kurmanji) → Kannada → Batak Simalungun → Hungarian → Irish → Hawaiian → Kiga → Azerbaijani → Ga → English
OriginalMixed“Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;”
“That April felt warm because of the saltiness. The March wine was drawn to the roots, and all the harps were cleansed with the key wine containing vertical flour.”
English → Sinhala → Azerbaijani → Japanese → English
OriginalMixed“He bit off more than he could chew and deeply regretted it.”
“He works hard and suffers from stress.”
English → Scots Gaelic → Yoruba → Bengali → Sundanese → Uzbek → Alur → Dinka → Punjabi (Gurmukhi) → Arabic → Seychellois Creole → English
OriginalMixed“Describe your pet's inner monologue”
“"Everyone is trying to get rid of the elderly."”
English → Telugu → Myanmar (Burmese) → Betawi → Thai → Yucatec Maya → Bosnian → Ndebele (South) → Dzongkha → Corsican → Greek → English
OriginalMixed“It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”
“And by way of writing, Italian!”
English → Pangasinan → Arabic → Bosnian → Mizo → Finnish → Tajik → Kurdish (Sorani) → Romani → Igbo → Tswana → English
OriginalMixed“Spiders crawling up your back, snakes slithering down.”
“There's a frog sitting on your back and a snake slithering along the ground.”
English → Bhojpuri → Abkhaz → Maithili → Polish → Uzbek → Odia (Oriya) → Assamese → Shona → Punjabi (Gurmukhi) → Bengali → English
OriginalMixed“Where did we go?”
“So I went inside.”
English → Kurdish (Sorani) → Ga → Pangasinan → Bemba → Myanmar (Burmese) → Breton → Tatar → Chinese (Simplified) → Lingala → Konkani → English
OriginalMixed“They burned the midnight oil trying to finish the project.”
“Thank you so much for your help with this project.”
English → Maori → Batak Simalungun → Betawi → French → Bashkir → Abkhaz → Acehnese → Czech → Alur → English
OriginalMixed“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
“The most important thing is to have fun.”
English → Quechua → Hmong → Abkhaz → Arabic → Ga → Fijian → English
OriginalMixed“Don't count your chickens before they hatch.”
“Craft beer is not sold before it is born.”
English → Haitian Creole → Dutch → Dzongkha → Balinese → Kinyarwanda → Chinese (Simplified) → English → Dinka → Cebuano → English
OriginalMixed“Don't count your chickens before they hatch.”
“Don't expect too much from it at the beginning.”
English → Rundi → Alur → Acholi → Chinese (Simplified) → Hawaiian → Greek → Danish → Guarani → Filipino → Dutch → English
OriginalMixed“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.”
“Is this the real world? Is this a beautiful story? You can't escape the real world by living in an earthquake.”
English → Hiligaynon → Ewe → Dzongkha → Hawaiian → Afrikaans → Javanese → Krio → Ilocano → Punjabi (Gurmukhi) → Maori → English
OriginalMixed“May the Force be with you.”
“You don't have a horse with you.”
English → Ewe → Swedish → Tsonga → Zulu → Kurdish (Kurmanji) → Filipino → Breton → English
OriginalMixed“Five little monkeys jumping on the bed. One fell off and bumped his head. Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed."”
“Five little spiders jumped to the floor. One fell and hit his head. The mother called the doctor, who said, "Bears can't fly anymore."”
English → Dogri → Seychellois Creole → Cantonese → Kituba → Esperanto → Hebrew → Dzongkha → Fulani → Abkhaz → Kazakh → English
OriginalMixed“The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Out came the sun and dried up all the rain, and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.”
“A small island rose above the water. Heavy rain began to fall and washed the snake away. The sun came out, the rain stopped, and the puppy immediately returned to the water.”
English → Alur → Arabic → Dinka → Tamil → Lithuanian → Russian → Chichewa → Welsh → Armenian → English
OriginalMixed“Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”
“Unfortunately for me, it's still possible to catch a snake”
English → Twi → Hunsrik → Hiligaynon → Krio → Malay → Pangasinan → Scots Gaelic → Fulani → Quechua → English
OriginalMixed“Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”
“Unfortunately for me, the mosquitoes got it.”
English → Twi → Hunsrik → Hiligaynon → Krio → Malay → Pangasinan → Scots Gaelic → Fulani → Quechua → English
OriginalMixed“Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage”
“No matter how angry I was, I was like a caged mouse.”
English → Sinhala → Buryat → Batak Toba → English
OriginalMixed“Owl be thinking about you.”
“If you haven't seen Rura yet.”
English → Maori → Zulu → Tigrinya → Mizo → Pangasinan → Sicilian → Turkmen → Somali → Luxembourgish → Slovak → English
OriginalMixed“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
“That's how i̱thpar gets money.”
English → Greek → Latvian → Marathi → Papiamento → Nuer → Persian → Romani → English
OriginalMixed“Play it again, Sam.”
“He is playing beans”
English → Gujarati → Khmer → Dutch → Hakha Chin → Hebrew → Hunsrik → Tigrinya → Dzongkha → Uzbek → Hindi → English
OriginalMixed“Poverty Does Not Come From a Decrease in Wealth, but From a Multiplication of Desires”
“Poverty is not caused by a lack of resources, but by an increasing number of people suffering from insomnia.”
English → Chuvash → Tetum → Kurdish (Kurmanji) → Thai → Spanish → Buryat → English
OriginalMixed“It'll be fine. We won't run out of disk space!”
“Makejan laughed. Google will take up hard drive space!”
English → Sanskrit → Arabic → Bhojpuri → Corsican → Acehnese → Balinese → Bemba → Yiddish → Vietnamese → Mongolian → English
OriginalMixed“People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint—it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.”
“People often think of time as a continuous flow of cause and effect, but in reality, from a nonlinear and objective perspective, it is like a vast, chaotic, and mysterious span of time.”
English → Pangasinan → Bengali → Aymara → Danish → Welsh → Vietnamese → Tsonga → Slovenian → English
OriginalMixed“Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you”
“I won’t leave you I won’t leave you I won’t let you run away I won’t hold you I won’t leave you I won’t cheat on you and I won’t hurt you”
English → Kurdish (Kurmanji) → Bashkir → Hunsrik → Kituba → Buryat → English
OriginalMixed“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.”
“Top position: Final traits. These are moves from the Enterprise spacecraft. Their mission continues: to explore dangerous new worlds, seek out new lifestyles and cultures, and venture into the unknown.”
English → Konkani → Ligurian → Chinese (Simplified) → Latgalian → Dinka → English
OriginalMixed“Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker”
“The desserts were delicious, but the alcoholic drinks were terrible.”
English → Esperanto → Ukrainian → Lombard → Lao → Chinese (Traditional) → Irish → Japanese → Swedish → Thai → English