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Old 05-13-2004, 01:31 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]From the recent "Earthshock" fiver:

[quoteost_uid0]Nyssa: Look! Dinosaur bones.
Doctor: Yep, they sure bought it big time.
Tegan: Hey, you're a Time Lord, you must know what happened.
Doctor: Actually, it's the other Doctors that pretend to know everything. I'm the neurotic one.
Nyssa: C'mon.
Doctor: Look, I gave you an encyclopedia for Christmas, so use it![/quoteost_uid0]
becomes, after being translated to Italian, then to French, and back to English,
[quoteost_uid0]Nyssa: Glance! Os of the dinosaur.
Medical: Yep, sure bought large time.
Tegan: Hey, you're a signore of time, you must know this qu'il arrived.
Medical: Really, it's the other doctors who pretend to know all. I'm that neurotic.
Nyssa: C'mon.
Medical: You observe, gave you un'enciclopedia for native, usilo![/quoteost_uid0]


[quoteost_uid0]Nyssa: See? There is a bomb behind the hatchway. And it's ticking.
Doctor: You are so going to get left behind on a leper colony someday.[/quoteost_uid0]
after taking the English --> Greek --> French --> English route becomes
[quoteost_uid0]Nyssa: Do you see? Exist a bomb behind hatchway. And it's notes.
Doctor: You should thus take on the left behind with a leprous colony someday.[/quoteost_uid0]


and finally,
[quoteost_uid0](The freighter and its doomed passenger smash into prehistoric Earth at Ludicrous Speed)[/quoteost_uid0]
becomes (after taking an English --> Dutch --> French --> English route)
[quoteost_uid0](the cargo liner and is the payment condemned in voorhistorische the ground to Ludicrous speed[/quoteost_uid0][/colorost_uid0]
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