Apologies for the insane article title, it's one of the results of passing a piece of text through "Blahblahfish", a fun yet useless re-translator.

The site takes any text you enter, and translates it to one of the 28 languages supported by the translation site, then translates that back to English again.

"This location had absolutely tall" is actually "this site is absolutely fantastic" in English to Croatian and back.

The purpose? None. But it makes for some absolutely hilarious results. The "highest rated" Blahblahfish translation managed to turn "Oh Shit!" into "Human waste of Ohio" when passed through English to Korean and back. Passing "George Bush" through a Latin translator, yields "Agricultural Shrub".

Of course, if you need a way to justify wasting 10 minutes of your life on creating gobbledygook text, then you could always claim you are doing scientific research on automated translation sites, but the real lesson here is that online translation sites are horrible at doing their job, and that using them for anything serious might be a bad idea.

(Via our friends at Download Squad)

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