[livejournal.com profile] almeda brings us this intriguing meme:

Pick 5 songs that you figure many/most people will know. Enter lyric excerpts of up to 150 words at Babelfish. Translate from English to German, from German to French, from French to Portuguese, and from Portuguese back to English.
Post the result, and see if people can figure out what song it was.


I'm not making the trip through Portugese because my browser's Taking Exception to Babelfish, but here are a few victims taken from English to German to French and back to English using Google's language tools --

EDIT, 4/28: since all I'm seeing is a collective 'blah blah blah GINGER' look from y'all, I've come back and added the choruses... except for #3, which doesn't have one as such.


1) As you become me, without you to receive to think, if you were caught to me for all those which I had, and takes a step me - even outside my, be you went fortunately, you are would realize, as you can be a long time the heat of the entry which the balls of rifle break with the clay of the impact

CHORUS:
The other bites dust and the other which one goes, and the other gone the other dust Hey, bites dust that the other bites me becomes receives you, the other bites dust


2) I formed it by Wildnis, me it could did not form in one way or another, lost me, until I find you who I was the impact who I became am had incomplete, were me were sad and blue, but you feel me Yeah formed, cultivated me smell you brillamment and again

CHORUS:
As a young woman who is affected during very first the mark, you want a woman young if your impacts of heart close my


3) Very that I can say, is precisely that I want my life watchin ' the rain of meeting of magma am rather normal and me to make can, all and does not want to say an aspect must speak, is however healthy, is for him him me wishes with me precisely approximately healthily says, me always there, if you know of Ya awake that I would like to hold my current day of the cheeks dryness remains thus with me am and I have to pour tea for both cultivated to him


4) Six hours - in the foreign line of test and fire votive-Schritt do not receive verfangen, decrease, hear inside an hour of television apparatus, stage make attention to the bottom your Fersezerstampfung, zerquetscht, uh-OH - on itself the butter barrel, with key and uniformly, the book which, burns the blood which leaves each reason, develop the car einaeschern light candle, light downwards, this one do not mean sector renegade-Ochsefreien fear rider! Si tournaments, offer the tournaments, tournaments of the lies to me solutions, of the alternatives offer to me above and me go down

CHORUS:
It is the end of the world, like know we it, him (is to him time which me some-a times only had), him it fine of the world is, like us to know, him (is to him time me some-a times only had), to him it fine of the world knows it there to us is and me believes that finely (it is a time me a few times had only), I smell finely


5) * to be able us to go, if us zur at the young night to wish and thus I and us capacity true clean our hat our foot to equip and ' EM with that captions to surprise, to be able to function us, if to wish you, if us not nobody will and to function you true capacity hard and total to eliminate and I like imbecile to function to be able

CHORUS:
I say, we can dance myself, we can all orientation dance it which we can dance, we can dance make it wall with wall dance us to be able, we can each sight with your hands dance to dance us to be able, we can each one dance takin ' the cha-a-a-ance



(Ah, how gloriously idiomatic our mother tongue is... Interestingly enough, I tried a couple of Beatles songs and they were all still too recognizable.)


I'll put the comments on "screened" for a day or two so everybody can have a chance to play along, 'K? ;)
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