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Arts William Faulkner or German Translating Machine?

Posted by David Schmader on April 25 at 10:03 AM

From the folks at Reverent Entertainment comes this inspired literary quiz: Can you guess which phrases were written by the Nobel Prize-winning Faulkner, and which were created by a German translating machine? Good luck!

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1

weird, i got an 83..

Posted by shrubbysteve | April 25, 2007 10:33 AM

2

wow. i got a 0.

Posted by josh | April 25, 2007 11:10 AM

3

I got an 83 too. Some of the examples had language construction that a machine simply could not have come up with. I love Faulkner!

Posted by Sachi | April 25, 2007 11:15 AM

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@3 - yeah that's pretty much how i guessed which were which heh.

Posted by shrubbysteve | April 25, 2007 11:37 AM

5

And I scored 17. Together, we hit 100. Hooray!










Er, wait...

Posted by dantc | April 25, 2007 11:39 AM

6

didnt josh post this a couple weeks ago?

Posted by ruby | April 25, 2007 2:05 PM

7

And this is why I hate Faulkner.

I got 50%. Which, I think, is the same as guessing.

Posted by exelizabeth | April 25, 2007 4:18 PM

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"didnt josh post this a couple weeks ago?"

Yes ( http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/03/man_or_machine ), but back then they did not have the picture of babelfish above the quiz. So now it can be considered remodelled and, as such, can be slogged again.

Posted by Don Simus | April 25, 2007 8:25 PM

9

8%

Posted by Sarah | April 26, 2007 10:44 AM

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