Fun with Alta Vista's Babel Fish

Named after Douglas Adams' universal translator, Alta Vista's Babel Fish is a useful tool for translating short phrases or web pages from another language to your own. It is also a good way to have a few cheap laughs. Here are a few examples of phrases translated from English, to French and then back to English.

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Ready, willing and able
Prêt, disposé et capable
Loan, laid out and able

To jump the gun
Brancher le pistolet
To connect the gun

Turn the other cheek
Tournez l'autre joue
Turn the other plays (proof that Jesus was a sports fan)

Yes, but I didn't inhale
Oui, mais moin'a pas inhalé
Yes but me did not inhale (Perhaps the cromagnon approach would have gone down better with voters)

Take it like a man
Prise il aiment un homme
Catch he love a man

The dirty dozen
La Douzaine Modifiée
The Modified Dozen

Stop playing silly buggers with babelfish
Arrêtez le jeu idiot lambine avec le babelfish
Stop the idiotic play dawdler with the babelfish