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[[File:Welsh sign enlarged 1244.jpg|frame|link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7702913.stm|The [[Land of My Fathers and Their Sheep|Welsh]] says: "I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated."<ref>The correct translation should be "Dim mynediad ar gyfer cerbydau nwyddau trwm. Safle preswyl yn unig."</ref> ]]
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[[Self-Demonstrating Article|Translator translates translators into two.]] When we try to forget it, we get that sound.<br />

[[Blind Idiot Translation|Blind blindness Idiot Translation]] from subject to word. The translator defines a grammatical, grammatical, grammatical, or mental sense of that word or word. To translate translators into security, it is [[Translation Train Wreck|translator]]. At times [[Gratuitous Foreign Language|the exterior speaker]] is expected.<br />

The name [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|"Blut Idiot"]] is invalid, because it does not speak abusively by translators (related to it). The translation translation of the beta software that works on my desktop is "to hide something, forgetting the link" in the "know", to change. To find Chinese and return to the English word, it is "unforgettable" in the good book.<br />

In another translation, the phrase "my body is happy, but the weak body" is well known as "fierce, but it is a miracle."<br />

[[Recursive Translation|Translate the latest]] changes. It also [[Japanese Ranguage|boasts Japan]], where earthquakes play a unique role in the [[Asian Speekee Engrish|voice and place of Asia]].<br />

[[Similarly Named Works|Do not]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}bK1jn3fEhz4 doubt the blind].

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Translations are things best handled by people who understand both languages. When producers forget this, we get this trope.<br />

A '''Blind Idiot Translation''' is a translation from one language to another where the translation is overly literal, grammatically incorrect, very awkward, or clearly misses what the word or phrase was supposed to be. When a translation is complete gibberish, then it is [[Translation Train Wreck]]. Sometimes overlaps with [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]].<br />

The name is not intended to be an insult against the translator (although it works just as well that way): [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|"Blind idiot"]] is the '''Blind Idiot Translation''' of the old saying "Out of sight, out of mind". A computer in a lab was running a beta of some translation software package and translated "Out of sight, out of mind", meaning "If you hide something, sometimes people forget that it existed in the first place." into Chinese and back to English, and the printout read "Invisible idiot".<ref>* And we [[Recursion|somehow "Blind Idiot" the "Invisible Idiot"]]. [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Self-Demonstrating Title]]?</ref><br />

In another variant, the phrase "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" got translated as "The alcohol is strong but the meat is rotten".<br />

Compare [[Recursive Translation]]. Also see [[Japanese Ranguage]] and [[Asian Speekee Engrish]], where jokes are made about odd pronunciations.<br />

[[Similarly Named Works|Not to be confused with]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK1jn3fEhz4 this Blind Idiot].
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