(Submitted by Anonymiss of Nuking Politics [High Praise!])
There’s lot of chatter & set-up on this, but you can skip to about 2:20 for the meat of the video. My German is non-existent, so I don’t know how well this actually works. I do know that the translator doesn’t bungle any English grammar until right at the end. Having met my share of people with English as their second language, I find the computer’s performance at least that good.
Oh, and the German girl’s fixed smile gets a little creepy after a while, don’t you think? I started having to look away to preserve my sanity.
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All I heard was “Ve haf vays of makinck you talk!”
Have you ever seen closed captioning? That’s English to English, and the low-budget ones that do nightly news or commercials (not well-funded movies) stink on ice.
They make up words left and right.
I believe tourists will sue after being hauled away by gendarmes for saying “Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?”
(A corollary of Godwin’s law must be that, in any discussion of bad translation services, the first to reference that skit loses.)
Her smile was creepy alright, but really what got to me were those crazy eyes when she spoke. It’s like she’s related to Overly Attached Girlfriend.
The German translation is epic bad, lol.
France just surrendered.
+1 Bob. It was the eyes that got me. Somewhat pretty but if that’s what she does with her face in real life, RUUUUUNNNNNNN!