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Sinbad Translation Party #15: Marriage of Convenience
Posted By: Sam, on host 198.51.118.71
Date: Monday, December 14, 2009, at 17:04:52

Brick: Huh. Now I can't either. Two possibilities: (1) the translation algorithm has been tweaked since I used it for this comic (maybe three months ago now); (2) I got the translation using some variation on capitalization and punctuation.

The first 60 Sinbad Party comics are all in the bag at this point; as I progressed through the series, I started trying each line multiple times, varying the capitalization and punctuation and picking the best result. (Capitalizing a single letter or leaving off an ending punctuation mark can produce dramatically different results.)

I just tried that particular line a bunch of different ways and couldn't get it. But there are a lot of different permutations; three of the words can be capitalized or not ("You'll," "Prince," and "Ali"), and the ending punctuation mark can be a period, an exclamation mark, or missing (or a comma or question mark, but I doubt I would have gone that far).

Either I didn't get the exact permutation when trying to recreate it just now, or the translation algorithm has been tweaked in the last three months. *shrug*


Link: Sinbad Translation Party #15: Marriage of Convenience