[Digital Genesis]

Hi folks. For those of you whacked out enough to think this is funny, here is the preamble for the constitution of the USA translated 3 times to a foreign language and back to English. Makes for some interesting reading

(note: translated with Power Translator 7)

English Original
The Constitution of the United States of America

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Spanish/English
The Constitution of the United States of America

Us people from the United States to form a more perfect union, establish the justice, assure the domestic tranquility, maintain to the common defense, promote the general well-being, and secure the blessings of freedom to us and our posterity, order and it establishes this Constitution for the United States of America.

Japanese/English
Configuration of the United States of America

As manufacturing, we United States, a more complete union, and we, for that world behind us, common defense, in order quietly to guarantee quite blessing freely with a negation against people of own self, domestic establishes a justice as preparing it, it doesn't establish that, about a maintenance to make kind welfare people for the that United States of America to make this configuration be stable advantageously be promoted.

[ March 17, 2002: Message edited by: Digital Genesis ]