bananaman5000
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- Mar 5, 2010
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I've learned quite a lot from this forum and I thought I would give a little trick I came up with back. Its VERY simple, but it saves me a lot of time.
Take a section of text, like this:
The banana plant has long been a source of fiber for high quality textiles. In Japan, banana cultivation for clothing and household use dates back to at least the 13th century. In the Japanese system, leaves and shoots are cut from the plant periodically to ensure softness. Harvested shoots are first boiled in lye to prepare fibers for yarn-making. These banana shoots produce fibers of varying degrees of softness, yielding yarns and textiles with differing qualities for specific uses. For example, the outermost fibers of the shoots are the coarsest, and are suitable for tablecloths, while the softest innermost fibres are desirable for kimono and kamishimo. This traditional Japanese cloth-making process requires many steps, all performed by hand.
Big G Translate it into Icelandic, then back into English, and it turns into this:
Plant of the banana has long been a source of fiber for textile products of high standard. In Japan, the cultivation of banana for clothing and household use dates back to at least the 13th century. The Japanese system is cut leaves and shoots from the plant periodically to ensure softness. Harvested shoot first boiled in lye to prepare the fibers to yarn. These banana shoots produce fibers of different elasticity, yielding now edited yarn and fabric with different characteristics for specific use. For example, the outermost fibers of the stem is coarsest, and are suitable for tablecloths but the softest innermost fibers desirable for kimono and kamishimo. This traditional Japanese cloth making process requires many steps, all performed by hand.
Depending on how spun the article you want, you can translate it into a more exotic language like Chinese or Arabic. I know its not perfect, but I've found it to be the cheapest and easiest way. You can run the finished product back through a few times in different languages to get it really unique.
Take a section of text, like this:
The banana plant has long been a source of fiber for high quality textiles. In Japan, banana cultivation for clothing and household use dates back to at least the 13th century. In the Japanese system, leaves and shoots are cut from the plant periodically to ensure softness. Harvested shoots are first boiled in lye to prepare fibers for yarn-making. These banana shoots produce fibers of varying degrees of softness, yielding yarns and textiles with differing qualities for specific uses. For example, the outermost fibers of the shoots are the coarsest, and are suitable for tablecloths, while the softest innermost fibres are desirable for kimono and kamishimo. This traditional Japanese cloth-making process requires many steps, all performed by hand.
Big G Translate it into Icelandic, then back into English, and it turns into this:
Plant of the banana has long been a source of fiber for textile products of high standard. In Japan, the cultivation of banana for clothing and household use dates back to at least the 13th century. The Japanese system is cut leaves and shoots from the plant periodically to ensure softness. Harvested shoot first boiled in lye to prepare the fibers to yarn. These banana shoots produce fibers of different elasticity, yielding now edited yarn and fabric with different characteristics for specific use. For example, the outermost fibers of the stem is coarsest, and are suitable for tablecloths but the softest innermost fibers desirable for kimono and kamishimo. This traditional Japanese cloth making process requires many steps, all performed by hand.
Depending on how spun the article you want, you can translate it into a more exotic language like Chinese or Arabic. I know its not perfect, but I've found it to be the cheapest and easiest way. You can run the finished product back through a few times in different languages to get it really unique.
