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Life & fun · February 14, 2011

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What happens when you translate phrases too many times?

What happens when you translate phrases too many times? launched on February 14, 2011 with 27 votes, #26 of 163 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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In plain words

What Happens When You Translate Phrases Too Many Times is a web-based tool that repeatedly translates text through multiple languages to see how meaning degrades. Users enter a phrase and watch as it gets translated back and forth across various languages, revealing how translations accumulate errors and shift the original meaning. The project demonstrates the quirks of automated translation systems and provides entertainment through increasingly absurd results.

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