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I highly recommend taking some poetry through this process. I also highly recommend taking the translation back to English after each other language, so you can

I highly recommend taking some poetry through this process. I also highly recommend taking the translation back to English after each other language, so you can watch how each translation changes it. However, this is one case where Google's improvement of their algorithms make the outcome less interesting. I've watched it happen. I record music as a hobby. In the past 6 years, I've recorded 24 albums in 24 different genres — many film and theatre scores, and "experimental" (groan-worthy term) electroacoustic music. When I'm not quite satisfied with lyrics that I've written, and instead want a can't-quite-put-my-finger-on-it weird mood, I use this exact technique. It translates what I've written into more idiosyncratic forms. There are chains of languages of which I'm most fond, particularly to/from Japanese (seems to be the weirdest of all the asian language translations — gives a lot of weird articles).

drivebyacct2 16y ago
> I also highly recommend taking the translation back to English after each other language, so you can watch how each translation changes it. That observation will change the translation though... Unless you went: A -> Spanish(A) -> English(Spanish(A)) -> German(Spanish(A)) -> English(German(Spanish(A))). Otherwise you'd be doing: A -> Spanish(A) -> English(Spanish(A)) -> German(English(Spanish(A))) -> English(German(English(Spanish(A)))), etc.
- spiralganglion 16y ago
  You're absolutely right. It's a lot easier (nay, possible) to do it with the actual Google Translate website, which is where I do all my chained translations. It may seem like extra work, but it lets you get a sense of the qualities of each translation. Obviously, haha, I've spent more time doing this than most would bother to.