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Like translating a phrase into a foreign language and back repeatedly, I inagine you’d end up with something fun and impressionistic. I’d like to see it too.

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Like this? http://www.translationparty.com/

If you're out of imagination you can copy and paste some comments from here and watch the results.

http://www.translationparty.com/bizarrely-the-pixelated-stuf...

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> Bizarrely, the pixelated stuff in the images you linked look way better.

> But then I remembered I look way better in the morning light.

In one step. Lovely! This sounds like poetry.

I've never heard of this before but just wasted 20 minutes on it. Very interesting concept with hilarious results

Most things I tried were slightly changed from english to japanese just once, then converged. Maybe it's just my lack of imagination!

Most of what I tried gathered somewhat from English to Japanese. Perhaps it is my lack of imagination!

The best examples, those with more divergent results, are those with a lot of subordinate clauses, which get mixed-up and moved from different parts of the sentence. You can select complex sentences from the list below.

> Like translating a phrase into a foreign language and back repeatedly, I inagine you’d end up with something fun and impressionistic.

This exact game features in the plot of Philip K. Dick’s 1969 novel, Galactic Pot-Healer.

For songs there is this: https://www.youtube.com/user/malineka146/videos

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