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Xanthippe is a small black cat who is always playful. Here are some of her favorite toys.
 
Language games 1
  • Translate into pimp, skinhead, and other dialects
  • Or translate into Swedish chef, jive, Smurf, and yet more dialects
  • Generate a random postmodern essay
  • Feed the postmodern essay generator into the psyclops translator, set for "pimp"
  • Read the London Times translated into "skinhead"
  • Read the Minneapolis Star Tribune translated into "Swedish chef"

Language games 2
Run your favorite prose through Babelfish 10 times and see what comes out. Seek perfect sentences: those that survive the translation process intact. So far we have found:

  • It could not translate.
  • It is time.

"Where would I be without IBM?" survives 9 translations intact but fails on the tenth. "He is a man of the people" is unusual in that the tenth iteration, "He is a common man," is both grammatical and more-or-less equivalent in meaning to the original.

Language games 3

Quislings

  Dancing fools

Virtual cowtipping

Animal magnetism

Official State Baked Goods
Note: Most states have not yet designated a state muffin, cookie, or dessert.

     
 

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