Since you all seem to be having fun with mistranslations here's a site called (appropriately enough)
Lost in Translation ...this one takes an English phrase and runs it through this cycle:
English-->French
French-->English
English-->German
German-->English
English-->Italian
Italian-->English
English-->Portuguese
Portuguese-->English
English-->Spanish
Spanish-->English
10 different translations...with an option to add Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into the mix...
For Example the simple enough line "One Ring to Rule them all" ends up as "A cycle, to govern it everything" ...not quite the same...
if you're interested though the entire process looks like this:
Quote:
Original English Text:
One ring to rule them all
Translated to French:
Une boucle pour les régner tous
Translated back to English:
A loop to reign them all
Translated to German:
Eine Schleife, zum zu regieren sie alle
Translated back to English:
A loop, to to govern it all
Translated to Italian:
Un ciclo, a governarlo tutto
Translated back to English:
A cycle, to govern it all
Translated to Portuguese:
Um ciclo, para governá-lo todo
Translated back to English:
A cycle, to govern it all
Translated to Spanish:
Un ciclo, gobernarlo todo
Translated back to English:
A cycle, to govern it everything
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Hope it adds to the confusion of the translations.