It's a slow news day -- why not pick on Babelfish some more?

It's not necessarily a fair test of a translation engine's usefulness to take a short phrase and round-trip it from one language to another and back, but it sure is fun.  The good folks at Sporcle must have come to the same conclusion, judging by the "Babelfish Videogame" quiz.  Try it yourself.  See if you can figure out what "The Developmental Soccer which is Occupational" and "Spatial Aggression Person" started life as.

I got 7 out of 20, and that was still good enough 57th percentile, so garbled were the results.

And now for extra amusement, here's the above translated into, oh, say, Portuguese and back:

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