Monday, February 23, 2009

Pandora's Litter Box: Fun With Babelfish

  1. Go to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/. (Remember when it used to be at babelfish.altavista.com? I do!)
  2. Type fuzzy cat into the big text area box.
  3. Select "English to Japanese" in the drop-down menu.
  4. Click the "Translate" button.
  5. Select and copy the translation.
  6. Paste it back into the "Translate again" box.
  7. Select "Japanese to English" in the drop-down menu.
  8. Click the "Translate" button.
  9. Ponder the philosophical and quantum mechanical implications when it spits out Ambiguous cat in response.

1 comment:

spajadigit said...

Is the cat still in the box? And is it alive and dead until you open it?

It doesn't get more ambiguous than that.

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