Machine Translation and Article Spinning

On Triond recently I've read a number of pieces prepared with translation software and then run through a synonymizer to yield "50 percent re-written" content. The purpose of such mangling of language is either to plagiarize or to place multiple copies of the article on several websites without being detected. These articles inspired me to make the following demonstration of how the combination of translator and synonymizer software can destroy even the best prose. Notice птоломеевы (ptolomeevy) and птоломеевых (ptolomeevyh) are not even translated.

Tolstoy’s "War and Peace," Second Epilogue, Chapter 12, First Paragraph

Original Russian Text

С тех пор как найден и доказан закон Коперника, одно признание того, что движется не солнце, а земля, уничтожило всю космографию древних. Можно было, опровергнув закон, удержать старое воззрение на движения тел, но, не опровергнув его, нельзя было, казалось, продолжать изучение птоломеевых миров. Но и после открытия закона Коперника птоломеевы миры еще долго продолжали изучаться.

Machine Translation

Since discovered and proved the law of Copernicus, a recognition that the sun does not move and the earth, destroyed the entire cosmography of the ancients. It was possible, disproving the law, retain the old conception of the movement of bodies, but not denying it, it was impossible, apparently, to continue studying ptolomeevyh worlds. But after the discovery of the law of Copernicus ptolomeevy worlds for a long time continued to be studied.

Synonymized Machine Translation

For the purpose discovered and unrelieved the show of Copernicus, a affirmation go wool-gathering the sunlight does call operation and the leavings, dejected the entire cosmography of the ancients. It was anniversary card, disproving the posture, cleave to brace selection the superannuated clue of the reaction behaviour of indigent, but moan adversative it, it was futile, evidently, to suffer pensive ptolomeevyh worlds. But bill the disclosure of the deport oneself of Copernicus ptolomeevy worlds for a pine age continual to be seized.

Maude (Human) Translation

From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients. By disproving that law it might have been possible to retain the old conception of the movements of the bodies, but without disproving it, it would seem impossible to continue studying the Ptolemaic worlds. But even after the discovery of the law of Copernicus the Ptolemaic worlds were still studied for a long time

Triond Readership

Most of my Triond readership lives outside the United States, a fact that astonishes me.  I expected a much larger portion of the people reading my articles to be Americans.  I snipped the pie chart from my dashboard yesterday.  The blue sector at the bottom, in case you can't read it, is United States readership.

If you'd like to give it a try, my Triond referral link is: http://www.triond.com/rw/551035.

Puzzle is small; find larger copies at armored penguin

Blogger reduced the size of the puzzle below.  The pdf's of puzzles at www.armoredpenguin.com are U.S. letter-size.  I made my puzzles public.  The puzzles are archived by date and time and stored for two months.  Here's the  information you need to find the puzzle on Armored Penguin:

Feral Cat Glossary Words Mark Jones 8 Nov 2011 10:03:50

Kids' Word Search Puzzle

I made a word search puzzle for my younger daughter using the vocabulary words in a book she's reading about feral cats. I used the word search puzzle generator on www.armoredpenguin.com. I converted the pdf files for the puzzle and the answer into jpg files in order to post them on this blog.

Have fun!

Here's the answer.