Current music:	Rachel Stevens - Dumb Dumb
Entry tags:	stupid

Okay, so I'm participating in a lyrics contest in which people translate a certain song. Just now I got a submission from someone who apparently thinks they're sooooo smart. One look at it and it's obvious it's just been run through Google or Babelfish (turned out to be Google; I ran it through and got the exact same results). The main tip-off, other than the excreble results, is that there are still random bits of Japanese text scattered throughout the song!

How stupid do you have to be to think this is a good idea? I mean, I wrote back to them saying I couldn't accept a machine translation, but even if I had, did they really think they had a chance of winning? Even the worst translation done by a human being would still be better, since, you know, it wouldn't have random Japanese left in!

I can't post the whole thing or the original lyrics, because of the contest rules, but here's a few snippets that are especially good:

"逆らいwent out of the wind vane in 1000"

"largest solar wings hammer and punch out Yuke"

"All-scratching a living in the moment erase TETAI"