Translation experiment #1 I've
always thought that the text was nonsense. Colin Morton tells me that the
text is sound poetry. Of course he is right. The text is not
written to make any sense and for that matter the text is also not written
to to intentionally make nonsense. The text is just a guide.
The text is just notation like musical notes on a page. The text
describes how the poem should sound. Or are there other purposes?
The human voice is the standard equipment. But nonsensical sounds
in one language may have a meanings in another. The sound "primiti"
sounds very much like the English word primitive. But Kurt Schwitters
was German.. What happens when a "non biased" computer translates
text? If a computer translation makes sense of some of the words,
where does the sense come from?
"Primiti Too Taa"
Primiti Too Taa
English
Primiti 倪Taa
Chinese
Primiti Trop Taa
French
Primiti Auch Taa
German
Primiti Ugualmente Taa Italian
Primiti Demasiado Taa Portuguese
ä*™ã‚Sã*«Primiti Taa
Japanese
Primiti También Taa
Spanish
Primate Too At
Netscape (English
spell checker)
Prompt Too Tea ClarisWorks
(English spell checker)
The text of "Primiti too Taa" was translated at Alta Vista Bablelfish http://babelfish.altavista.com/ The Internet translating program that made this possible is made by http://www.systransoft.com/OnlineServices.html
Note about text layout: The page layout for the original version, was made to help the reader to recite the poem the way that Colin Morton performed it in the film "Primiti Too Taa"). The new layouts for each translated page was made by the translation program itself.
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