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fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2005-04-21 12:12 am
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right, then.

i've seen this in various places --

You go find a song that everybody knows and put the lyrics into the Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/).  Translate them from English to German, then German to French, and then French to English.  Then post here with 3 clues.  See who gets the song  right first.

y'all don't need clues, do you?

Before I can recall calmly a long length time, me to form me to smile like this music to used.  And I knew, if I had the probability that I could make dance these people and that perhaps they would be happy for one moment.  But me Shiver with each paper that I would deliver -- bad information at the stage of door, formed February; I could not reach another stage.  I cannot remember, above if I cried, when I read must on his widowed, something me in the day have however affected deeply which it music died.

[ETA: yes, it is in fact "american pie" by mr. don mclean; well done [livejournal.com profile] cannons_at_dawn and [livejournal.com profile] maliwane.  for extra fun, i ran the same text through the translator a few more times:  (1) original english into dutch; (2) dutch into french; (3) french into greek; and (4) greek back into english. this is what it came up with:
Long, ypofeme'nos for a lot, I can still remind how this music that is used for the mice you make.  And with have it knows or I had the probability that I have they can I make this dance of person and they' perhaps d am eytyhi' for tijdje.  But February I have made Or d with ka'c a written grelote bad news in the most minimum limit I provide?  I do not have it can I touch upon more the metre.  I cannot me remind if I have fwnahtej' in that moment with regard to widowed his bride I have read, but something with it has touched upon the deep in the kentroce'tisi of day music it has died.

and the thing is? you'd probably all still have got it, thanks to the fact that the last five words include "day", "music", and "died". ;-) ]

[identity profile] cannons-at-dawn.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
C'est la Pie Americaine!

[identity profile] maliwane.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
It's gotta be American Pie, right?
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[personal profile] thalia 2005-04-20 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I got it from "me to smile like this music to used"!

[identity profile] corvidae9.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
ICON LOVE!!! (blame fox for pointing it out last time I used mine)
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[personal profile] thalia 2005-04-20 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[g] Poor Fox, having to figure out which Delirium is which.

[identity profile] corvidae9.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, hello - yours has the whole green fishie in the left corner and mine doesn't. Sheesh. :))

[identity profile] osymandias.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I was just about to post 'American Pie', but then lots of other people answered before me :(

[identity profile] darthfox.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
aww. it's okay, you knew what it was before you saw their answers.

[identity profile] corvidae9.livejournal.com 2005-04-20 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
D00d totally. That's all you need to identify it. :))