Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Bork, Bork, Bork? (noht ebuoot bolivia)

I was looking through the language options of google today when i noticed, amongst, you know, french and spanish and whatnot, "¡Bork, Bork, Bork!"
curious, i clicked..
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/

and then did a little research to learn that this was in fact a version of google translated into the language of a muppet character.
i was also happy, and relieved (how did i ever live without this...) to discover that there´s a muppet wiki..

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Swedish_Chef

oh, but it gets better... when i went back into the language ops to get back to english, i noticed there was also an option called "hecker bork-bork-bork" (in bork bork bork, of course.. plain old "hacker" in english) which appears to be written in l33t.

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/

... just in case searching the internet in plain english wasn't geeky enough.

3 comments:

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Unknown said...

Wow.

Bork is very common where I work.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bork

The Google guys are cheeky geeks with lots of free time on their hands, which I guess explains the TWO versions they put on.

More fun with "languages" and "Google":

http://sites.gizoogle.com/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fandifnotnowthenwhen.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F01%2Fin-which-i-try-to-be-only-pair-of-eyes.html

Celeste said...

bahah! on the right side of the page it says bork, bork, biznork!
that´s amazing!