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.

Thoughts on translation experiment #1 will be posted. emailmailto:eackerman@primititootaa.com
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