Reading an article about dada art movement and its relevance in contemporary art I thought about an experiment.
I took a quotation for Shakespeare`s Romeo and Juliet and I have run it through Google translate for a few time. I used for the first try languages form Europe and for the second time languages from an imaginary naval trade route from England to India and back. The text was only copied and pasted exactly as the software translated it without any alteration from my part.
Original:
“Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.”
Take one – I picked the languages going through neighboring countries from England down to Croatia and back up to Scotland. This is the result:
Romeo
If I profane my unworthy hand
Saint, gentle sin
Two red lips pilgrim ready
Smooth and rough with a soft market.
Julian
Good pilgrim, hurt trade
Bollywood Show compliance on this issue;
However, we accept the sacred pilgrim phone
Palma is a sacred pilgrim market. ”
Take two – A trade route from England to India and back, it starts with on the sea and I choose languages from some major ports but then I changed the rout due to a ship wreck and the journey continues on land.
“Robert April.
My threats and I have Unworthiest.
This is noble and sacred like this sin.
Two blushing pilgrims my lips, ready stand.
Light bulbs with Nakakaugnay coarse leaves.
Juliette.
Better target the wrong hands, you too.
What experience shows commitment.
All Saints and pilgrims hands do not have hands.
Palmer with handfuls fresh “sacred.
We and up with two new characters – Robert April and Julian, somehow Bollywood is involved in the story and we have the following facts- Palma is a sacred pilgrim market and All Saints do not have hands. Thank God that today news and other information is so accurate and does not involve many people from different countries sending e-mails translated with Google and tweeter feeds back and forth.
