Lost in Translation
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Owner:
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the hermit crabs
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Released:
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005
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Origin:
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Massachusetts, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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Unknown Location
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To spice up your TB log by sending it through a language translator.
While it may have once been the paragon of creativity and inventiveness, the now-standard "Found it, will move along soon" bug-retrieval log has lost some of its zing through overuse. But what else is there to say, you ask? Just say the same old thing you always say, but first translate it into some other language and then back to English. It will suddenly sound much more interesting. "She did not find her that be soon move" (English to Turkish to English) has an urgent, mysterious quality, leaving us with many unanswered questions, while "That it is found; it moves eventually" (English to Japanese to English) compels us to develop a Zen-like patience regarding our travel bugs, and indeed, life in general.
To translate your log, you could use something like babelfish, or any of the many free translation sites listed at this site and pick any language you like. Or for a more wacky result, send it through a multi-language converter like lost in translation, which will send your text back and forth between English and several other languages, modifying it each step of the way. Pick whichever translation you like the best and use it in your bug-pickup log. Extra points if you can decipher the original text of the log before yours!
Original "Lost in Translation" TB, which went missing in 2009:
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the hermit crabs marked it as missing
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The owner has set this Trackable as missing.
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PKarin posted a note for it
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English:
Was looking up ideas for Travel Bugs when I ran across a link that someone posted for this TB. Such a clever and cool idea (translation and back again)! Since I'll most likely never make a find of the actual TB in a cache I wanted to try out the translation thing for grins and giggles.
So, thanks for the grins and giggles! :- )
translated to Russian then to Marathi then back to English:
Someone posted a link for tuberculosis when I was cross, Travel watched it a bug. The wise and good ideas (and back translation)! I will likely never be cached in the TB to find the experience was a translation SMILES and giggles.
The giggles and grins Thank you! : -)
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The Washington's placed it in Home of the big yellow bananas
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Utah
- 1,926.89 miles
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Dropped in Home of the big yellow bananas
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The Washington's retrieved it from No Swimming
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Virginia
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we found this when i was first starting to cache in Virginia beach and we kept it because we now live in Utah and we are now placing it in the valley to get it some miles for you ! sorry we kept it for so long but i am sure that you will enjoy knowing that it is not lost anymore !
The Washington's
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navycopcacher placed it in No Swimming
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Virginia
- 1.41 miles
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navycopcacher grabbed it
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Found this at Class'y in Va Beach! Translating shortly....
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exostratics placed it in Bushwackin' Cavaliers
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Virginia
- 864.5 miles
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exostratics grabbed it
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I'll be taking it home with me tomorrow and dropping it off shortly.
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paulette3535 posted a note for it
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Gave the TB to exostratics who will be moving it further than we can.
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paulette3535 retrieved it from Shores of the Depot
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Massachusetts
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Hey of [nashl] it; it will move it forward.
English - Russian - English
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data on this page is cached for 3 mins
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