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Comment Cycling text through Babelfish pre-empted by PKD (Score 1) 892

I was amused to read a passage in "Galactic Pot Healer", by Philip K Dick, where office employees play a game of taking a well known phrase and passing it through the translation computer to turn it into another language and then through another to turn it back into English, then making your opponent guess what the original was.

Ever played this game by yourself or with others using altavista/babelfish??

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