Thursday, November 19, 2009

All the Samples of the River

I think Google Translate is slowly improving. It seems like more and more often the song makes it through seven languages with enough intact to give away the game. Like this one, for example... it got translated from English into languages as diverse as Chinese, Icelandic and Yiddish before being translated back into English. And I figure you could still sing these distorted lyrics to the tune of the original. Of course, the original was gibberish too.
What is the word, "Baby, you're paradise to bird. Esgynbren Smile ice cream, but I think it is very good. In stage left and right, so reflected in the West. You know, some things special, and you seem to be the best. you to take part in a dance on the beach and through the Earth's rotation, dusty, more Oh the machine when you can get all the samples of the river on the Rio de Janeiro, you - do you dance. large.

What, pray tell, could this be? Check out the text in white below to see...

"Rio" as performed by Duran Duran
http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=480161635&search_in=i&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=30&start=1

Moving on the floor now, babe, you're a bird of paradise. Cherry ice cream smile: I suppose it's very nice. With a step to your left and a flick to the right, you catch that mirror way out west. You know you're something special and you look like you're the best. Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand just like that river twisting through a dusty land, and when she shines she really shows you all she can. Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande.

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