I have a lot of international friends. A majority of them speak fluent English. But sometimes I like to send them short messages in their native languages which

I have a lot of international friends. A majority of them speak fluent English. But sometimes I like to send them short messages in their native languages which I don't speak, just for fun. When I started doing this, ten years ago, machine translation was far worse than it is now, so I would often pass a translation through a few languages and back to make sure that what I was saying held a pretty consistent meaning when translated. If not, I could re-work the original into something simpler or more literal. While doing that, I often thought it would be fun to play the kids game "Telephone" with my international friends where instead of the classic version of just whispering what you heard to the person next to you in the same language and seeing what comes out at the other end, each person would translate what they heard into their native language and before passing it on. It's a little tricky to play in real life because you have to line people up according to their language pairs, but doing it with machine translation works, and it's a lot of fun to see what happens with this.