May 3, 2004

tower of babelfish

e.e. cummings is fun enough in English... but what happens when backtranslated to/from Portuguese?

original:

anyone lived in a pretty how town
with up so floating many bells down
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

hipper, fresher remix:

any one lived in a pretty one as the city
with ascendant thus floating many bells jumps for low
winter where of the autumn of the summer
didn't sang its danced his

Sorry, e.e.

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