2017년 10월 21일 토요일

How the Koreans Might Hear the North Korea Polka

I took Weird Al's magnificent "North Korea Polka" and Google translated it into Korean and back. Let's just say it loses some nuances but perhaps picks up others.



"The North Korea Polka (Please Don't Nuke Us)"

Would you annihilate us if you had the chance?
That's such an antisocial thing to do
You've got us crapping our collective pants
May I suggest you take it down a notch or two

We're not exactly sure why you're upset
Did that Seth Rogen movie make you super mad?
You'd like us if you got to know us i bet
We're mostly harmless decent people
hey we're really not so bad
My point is!
Please don't nuke us North Korea
Right now we're all a little tense
Believe me!
We don't hate you
Frankly we don't even think that much about you
no offense

Now you might call us "bloodthirsty dogs"
But that metaphor's not very apt
Were just a bunch of simple fidget-spinning goofy dorks
Who probably couldn't find your country on a map

No we're not savages or cannibals
Well maybe just a really really really small percent
So I think it would be best
if you'd knock off those missile tests
Don't turn us into cinder
while we're swiping right on Tinder
Don't jump start Armageddon
or our beds will soon be wetter
Won't you think this through for a moment please
Now why would you bomb our nice celebrities?
Oh why in the world would you kill Tom Hanks?
Cause nobody doesn't like Tom Hanks!

So!
Please don't nuke us North Korea
That would seriously ruin our day
Remember!
We're not evil psychotic monsters
No matter what the news may say
We're just those goofballs from the U.S.A!
(Please don't nuke us)
(Please don't nuke us)
(Please don't nuke us)
Hey!
"North Polka (Please do not bother us)"

Would you kill us if we had a chance?
Doing so is an antisocial behavior.
You are drinking our collective pants.
Could you suggest a one or two scaling down?

We do not know exactly why you are angry.
Did Seth Rogen make you angry?
If you know our bet you want us.
We are mostly innocent people.
Hey, we are not so bad.
My point is!
Please do not tempt us to North Korea.
I'm a little nervous right now.
Trust me!
We do not hate you.
To be honest, we do not think so much about you
or attack you.

We may now call us "bloodthirsty dogs."
But the metaphor is not very appropriate.
Was it just a bunch of sparkling dorks?
Maybe you could not find your country on the map

We are neither barbarians nor cannibals.
Perhaps it's actually a very small percentage.
So it would be best
if you knocked out the missile test.
Do not make us synthesizers
while we swipe right from the tinder.
Armageddon
or our bed should not start getting wet soon.
Do not you think about this for a while?
Why would we make our great performers into bombs?
Why would you kill Tom Hanks in the world?
Because nobody likes Tom Hanks!

so!
Please do not tempt us to North Korea.
It will ruin our times seriously.
Think about it!
We are not evil psychopaths.
Whatever the news is
We are American idiots!
(Please do not calm us down)
(Please do not calm us down)
(Please do not calm us down)
Hey!

2017년 10월 9일 월요일

Thriller via Google Translate

Taking "Thriller" into Hausa and back via Google Translate:

It is near midnight
An evil thing is worried about the dark
Under the sun
You see a look that almost stops your heart
You are trying to cry
But terrorism takes the sound before you do it
You're getting freeze
Just as panic looks at you between your eyes
You're lying

'Do this very happy
Night thriller
And no one can save you
From the animal about hitting
You know he's worried
Night thriller
You're fighting for your life
In the execution
Thriller tonight, so

Listen to the doorbell
And realize that there is no way to run
You feel cool
And wonder if you can see the sun
You close your eyes
And the skin that this just imagined
Girl but always
You hear a creature move in the past
You do not have time

'Make this sad, important night
There is no second opportunity for the item with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, nightmare
You are fighting for your life in death, great today

(Vincent Price spoken part)
The Creator of the night calls
And the dead began to walk in their contents
No one has escaped foreign sanctions at this time
They are open
This is the end of your life

(Back to MJ)
They want to drive you out, there are demons covered on every side
They will control you, unless you change the code on your call
Now is the time for you and me to play together, too
All night
I will save you from terrorism on the screen, I will let you see

This is a sad and proud night
'So I can make you happier than any guy can never try
Thriller, nightmare
So let me hold you
And share a killer, thriller, chiller
Thriller here tonight
'So this is a wonderful, sweet thing at night
Girl I can make you happier than any guy can never try
Thriller, nightmare
So let me hold you
And share a killer, thriller
I'll be happy with you tonight

(Back to Vincent Price)
Darkness covers the land
Midnight is near
Creative things have resulted in blood transfusions
To scare y'all in your neighborhood
And whoever is found
Without a spirit to get less
He had to stand up to the hounds of hell
And he is pregnant in the body of a dead person

2017년 10월 5일 목요일

Willie Nelson Meets Google Translate

"On The Road Again" translated into Kurdish and back:
Go on
Only one can stop running again
Whatever I love, I love music with my friends
And I can not go back again
Go on
In the places I have not come
See the things I've never seen again
And I can not go back again
On the road
As we go on a hiking band, we go to the road
We are the best friends of the world
When the world transfers us
And our way
It's on the go
Only one can stop running again
The life I love to make music with my friends
And I can not go back again

Into Hausa and back:
In the course too
Just can not wait to get back the track again
The life I want to play is with my friends
And I can not wait to go back the road anymore
In the course too
Running places I've never been
Looking at what I can see
And I can not wait to go back the road anymore
The course also -
As a group of gypsies we have fallen down the road
We are the best friend
Make sure the world turns our way
And our way
It's on the way
Just can not wait to get back the track again
The life I want is music 'music with my friends
And I can not wait to go back the road anymore

Taking it into Hawaiian and back gets you some interesting lyrics:
On the street
It is impossible to wait to get back on the street
The life that I love is the work of singing with my friends
I can not wait to go back the street
On the street
The places where I was mad
Strengthening my abilities
I can not wait to go back the street
On the road -
Like the guy gypsies we walk the trail
We are good friends
Inhibiting the global search of the whole world
And our way
It is on the way
It is impossible to wait to get back on the street
The life that I love most is' singing with friends
I can not wait to go back the street

"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" into Samoan and back:

In the daylight I see them
Blue tears of tears in the rain
When we kissed thanks and divided it
I knew we were no longer meeting

Love is like a weakness
Only thoughts remain permanent
I will remember it in generations
Blue tears of tears in the rain

Some days when we meet above
We will turn our hands around again
Inside a land it is not underestimated
The cold of the eyes cries in the rain

My hair is turned into silver
Throughout my life I was free
I can see his star in heaven
Blue tears of tears in the rain

 Taking "Crazy" into Frisian and back:
I'm mad. Revenge for the feeling that is so lonely.
I'm mad. Leave the feeling so blue
I know you love when you want
Then leave me one for a new one
Care. Why let me deal with it
I want to do something in the world?
Crazy for thinking that my love could keep you
I'm crazy to weep.
I'm crazy to try.
I'm crazy to learn you.
Into Vietnamese and back:

I'm crazy. Crazy for feeling lonely.
I'm crazy. Crazy because the feeling is too green
I know you will love me as long as you want
Then, one day let me give somebody a new one
Worry. Why do I let myself worry
Ask yourself how in the world?
Crazy for thinking that my love can hold you
I'm crazy because of crying.
I'm crazy trying.
I'm crazy for love you.

And perhaps my favorite, that old standby Hawaiian:

I was wrong. Want to be thinking.
I was wrong. There is a rage for blue feeling
I have the strength to love you whenever you want
One day I will leave something new
Be afraid. Why I'm leaving myself
Do I worry about the world's work?
It's a joy to think you can love it
I'm not crying.
I want to try.
I want to love you.