A Chinese whisper

As an experiment I fed the motto of my blog "Connecting the electrodes of queer wisdom to the nipples of bigotry and ignorance" through half a dozen translations in the same translator. This is what I got back from WorldLingo:

English to Spanish: Conectar los electrodos de la sabiduría rara con las entrerroscas del fanatismo y de la ignorancia.

Spanish to Dutch: Om de elektroden van de zeldzame wijsheid aan entrerroscas van fanaticism en de onwetendheid te verbinden.

Dutch to Greek: Για να συνδέσουν το φανατισμό και την άγνοια οι μαγνήτες της σπάνιας φρόνησης με τα entrerroscas.

Greek to Arabic: [إين وردر تو] ربطت التعصب والحالة جهل المغنطيسات من تعقل نادرة مع [إنتررّوسكس].

Arabic to Japanese: 稀な慎重さからの磁石についての熱狂そして状態の無知の束との

Japanese to English: Rare prudence the bundle of ignorance of excitement and state concerning the empty magnet

Another translator, BabelFish came up with:

English to Spanish: Conectar los electrodos de la sabiduría rara con las entrerroscas del fanatismo y de la ignorancia

Spanish to French: Relier les électrodes de la sagesse rare avec les entrerroscas du fanatisme et de l'ignorance

French to Greek: Να συνδέστε τα ηλεκτρόδια της σπάνιας σοφίας με τα entrerroscas του φανατισμού και της άγνοιας

Greek to English: Connect the electrodes of infrequent Sofia with entrerroscas the fanaticism and the ignorance

English to Japanese: とまれなソフィアの電極を熱狂および無知接続しなさい

Japanese to English: Stop excitement and connect the Sophia electrode ignorantly

The translation path is different because it gave fewer options, but I do like this result.
A third one, Applied Language Solutions, came up with:

English to Portuguese: Conectando os elétrodos da sabedoria estranha aos bocais do bigotry e do ignorance

Portuguese to French: En reliant l'elétrodos de la sagesse trouve trange aux embouts de la bigotry et de l'ignorance

French to Dutch: Door elétrodos van de wijsheid te verbinden vindt trange aan embouts van bigotry en de onwetendheid

Dutch to English: By linking elétrodos of wisdom find trange to embouts of bigotry and ignorance

English to Arabic: ب يقترن [إلترودوس] من حكمة اكتشاف [ترنج] إلى [إمبووتس] من تعصب وحالة جهل

Arabic to English: In skimps from wisdom of discovery from fanaticism and situation of ignorance

A modern version of the Babel language confusion!

This had me laughing all day long

The Profanisaurus: English dictionary of profane language.
My favourite entries:
- barse n. The perineum; that little bit between your balls and your arse.
- biffon n. That part of the female anatomy between the bottom and the vagina, which the man's balls biff on during intercourse.
- Billy Mill roundabout n. The climactic point of masturbation. From the A1058 Coast Road in Newcastle. e.g. "My mum walked in just as I was coming up to the Billy Mill roundabout".
- Dutch oven n. The area beneath the bedclothes after one's partner has just played the dawn chorus on his botty bugle.
- ghost shit n. A stool or dump of which there is no trace when you stand up and turn round to admire it.
- pirate of men's pants euph. Swashbuckling term for your jolly Roger.
- polish the lighthouse v. male To masturbate in the bath.
- tackleshack n. Underpants.

Is it just me but aren't a lot of entries to do with females rather on the nasty side:
- bucket fanny n. A spacious vagina. Also Tardis twat.
- fizzing at the bung hole euph. To denote sexual arousal in women.
- hamburger shot n. A rear view in a pornographic magazine in which the beef curtains (qv) are visible.

When you got some spare time

My Japanese name is 原 Hara (wilderness) 拓海 Takumi (open sea).
I quite like it. Shall I have it tattooed on a sensitive part of my body?

From: Japanese name generator

Cunning linguists

Slate nominated its Words of the Year for 2004, and The Most Outrageous Category was won by "santorum".
If you don't know the term, please be advised the link has a "bad taste advisory" attached to it. But in the context of the American culture wars in the political arena, it's an entirely apt and appropriate choice.

Educational standards in Brashville

National Party education shadow spokesman Bill English in his press release on the growing cost of education uses the verb "to bale out" several times:

While the Ministry of Education has baled out 5% of schools, parents and communities are left to bale out the other 95%, says National’s Education spokesman, Bill English. In the past four years the Ministry has baled out 100 schools at a cost of almost $6 million.

Now according to the English dictionary "to bale out" means:

To bale out is to jump from an aircraft

So what on earth does Mr English mean? Is it a slip indicating he is ready to jump waka? Or are spelling standards and vocabulary not up to scratch in Southland schools?