Comments | michael_arnold: Stupid Meme before I leave for the day....

michael_arnold

Stupid Meme before I leave for the day....

Apr 20, 2005 17:05

Take lyrics to a song, paste them to Google Language Tools. Translate them from English to German, then from German to French, then from French back to English. Post the lyrics on your blog and ask people to guess what song it is ( Read more... )

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sfharetik April 21 2005, 03:23:52 UTC

baby I tried and it was hard enough to type in the whole thing the first time but when I read that it had to be done again I gave up.

michael_arnold April 21 2005, 15:53:42 UTC

oh god, I wouldn't expect you to type it in once! I took the lyrics off a fan website and cut and paste them in, in the original English, then cut and paste from the "translated" box into the "translate" box, to complete the exercise. What you were supposed to do is guess what the song is...

lumberjackie_o April 21 2005, 07:07:38 UTC

...and you get 'cocteau twins' lyrics!!...

michael_arnold April 21 2005, 15:54:10 UTC

LOL, but the question isn't what do you end up with, the question is what did it start off as....

bearfuz April 21 2005, 07:22:22 UTC

I did it. Check out my post. :-)

I didn't really expect many people to get it.... michael_arnold April 21 2005, 16:09:51 UTC

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between flesh and what's fantasy and the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all, they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of a knife they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand but they wind up wounded, not even dead
Tonight in Jungleland

(last verse - Jungleland - Bruce Springsteen, off the Born to Run album, 1974.