What follows, are nursery rhymes that have been translated from English, to one or more other languages, using an "online translator" and finaly translated back to English. The final outcome is something completely different than what started out.

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ORIGINAL HOW TRANSLATION
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon.

The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon

English
to German
to French
to English
Hey diddle diddle,
the cat and the violin,
the cow which is jumped on the moon.

The puppy which one laughs,
to see of such sport,
and the plates ran far with the spoon

Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear,
Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair,
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't really fuzzy,
Was he?
English
to French
to German
to English
Wuzzy smeared was a bear,
Wuzzy smeared a hair had,
Wuzzy smeared was not smeared,
not is not really it?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the King's horses,
And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty
Together again.

English
to Italian
to English
Humpty Dumpty seated on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty has had one fallen large.

The horses of all the king
and the men of all the king
have not been able to still
join Humpty.

Three blind mice, see how they run!
They all ran after the farmer�s wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice.
English
to Japanese
to English
How it moves, 3 blind mice see!
As for them all farmer?
That kind of thing of your life
which looks at you who cut the tail
which has the knife
which the wife carves
as 3 blind mice was done
the after the S, it ran.
Rock a bye baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows,
The cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
Down will come the cradle, baby and all.
English
to Italian
to English
A child oscillates bye
on the advanced part of the tree,
when the wind jumps,
the crib will oscillate,
when the bough he breaks off
the crib falls, to drain itself
will come the crib,
the child and all.

 

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