Natural language understanding

Language is one of the things I am interested in. Not actual language, but language as a particular structure and one of the means of communication. In this project I combine my interest in language, communication, technology and manipulation. Using translating software I take one phrase, which is called to warn about damage can be made due to incorrect translation, and translate it several times using the software changing the order of languages. Results are every time different and have totally different meaning than original input. Due to their constructed nature they resemble some sort of mechanic poetry. These phrases still make some sense but their original message is hidden behind the layers of translation mistake that growing and growing on the sentence making original untraceable.
Project was presented as a set of loose cards with one translation per page. These cards became randome answers on questions, inspiration material, note sheets etc. People could decide how to use it.

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