Computer translations are not new.

They’re not perfect either.  This program can take an English phrase (song lyric, etc.) of your choosing and translate it from English to French, then from French to German, then from German to Italian, then from Italian to Portuguese, then from Portuguese to Spanish, and then from Spanish back into English.

In a perfect world, the final translation should be the same as the starting phrase.

Not so.  Some experiments —

Original English Text:
Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re gonna get.

Translated back to English:
The duration is like the structure of the chocolate; They never know that one, you stop receiving go they.

Hmmmmm.  Okay.  Another one —

Original English Text:
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been.

Translated back to English:
Eleanor Rigby makes the examination to the rice in the church, where it was a connection.

And finally, the quote from Miss Teen South Carolina (I removed the uh’s and er’s) —

Original English Text:
I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don’t have maps. And I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our children.

Translated back to English:
The creed, what the Americans of united declare cannot give the form personally therefore, because here in our cards of the nation they do not have in all external one. Creed that I eat in Iraq and all the part in Africa of the south when to appreciate our formation like and the creed that they had had, our formation of and here in the S.U.A. if dae (automatic device of the information entrance) of Africa of the south of the attention of the S.U.A. and they to help to the Iraq and to the Asian of the countries we, to follow latta to us the end to accumulate our future for our children.

I’m not sure which is worse…