Philosophy Babel Quiz

[robinturner]

Thanks to cassielsander for introducing me to Lost in the Translation. This is a nice script that runs a text through Babelfish, translating and retranslating between English and five other languages. For example, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" comes back as "Each one that the possible one was presented/displayed of the other name would think about the one the cake" (if this sounds like one of those examples in logic textbooks where the author tries to render a piece of complex symbolic logic into English, it's probably because the same process is involved).

So, test your philosophical knowledge! Which famous philosophers said the following?

1. The task, therefore is I
2. The ghost has one, Europe, that takes care of the ghost of Communism.
3. The liberations of the sopportato of the man, but are all the part in chains.
4. Welcomely with the Earth inculta of the truth.
5. Which we cannot speak, to the interior of us in having if within calm left that it its

Comments

[regyt.livejournal.com]

1. Descartes
2.
3. Rousseau
4.
5. Wittgenstein

I'm going to sit down and have some tea and see if the others come to me. I feel like they're just at the edge of my brain.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Oh. Of course. Erk. It's been a while, but tea brings flashes of memory.

2. Marx

[solri.livejournal.com]

Which only leaves that one quoted in the Matrix!

[regyt.livejournal.com]

I figured out the last one, but I had to do a bit of research. It wasn't something I just knew, as I'd never read anything by the guy. So I won't tell - I'll give someone a chance to show off actual knowledge.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Well, no one else has guessed, so here it is:

"Welcome to the desert of the real" - Baudrillard.

I have to confess I didn't recognise it when I saw the film; it was pointed out by a friend whose really into those continental types.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Do I get a prize for being the biggest philosophy geek?

[solri.livejournal.com]

What kind of prize did you have in mind?

[regyt.livejournal.com]

I want a surprise prize!

[solri.livejournal.com]

OK, but it will take me a while to type it.

[solri.livejournal.com]

It's been mailed to your omniheurist address.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Did you ever get it, by the way?

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I emailed back asking you to send it in a different format.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Got it. That was a fun read. Thank you.

[solri.livejournal.com]

Glad someone likes my juvenilia! There again, I think only succesful authors who carrying on writing past their twenties are allowed to use the word "juvenilia".