The Mixi Challenge!

March 25th, 2007 · 12 Comments

OK all you Mixi invaders, try to find the Herro Flom Japan community and join it.

Someone who joined wrote their self-intro in Japanese using machine translation. It's a bit like haiku by e.e. cummings.

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12 responses so far ↓

1 jon // Mar 25, 2007 at 2:32 pm

Done. I think. reading japanese from the translations coming out of rikai-chan is quite strange but I am sure I could learn a lot just trying to navigate mixi this way.
2 Erik // Mar 25, 2007 at 5:04 pm

I'm not quite sure how… but I found the join button!

Thanks for giving me the chance to spend some quality time with my Rikaichan.
3 Ben // Mar 25, 2007 at 5:34 pm

私は残念、私話す英語だけをである! 私はオースティン、テキサス、米国のアメリカ人である。私は機械日本語のために謝る!

I am misfortune, I only speaking English. I, American exist in Austin, Texas, America. In order to mechano-Japanese, I apologise.

I don't want to embarrass whose profile it is, but I assume the weird Japanese is this

My Japanese isn't great, but I did my best at trying to represent the weirdness in English.

Babelfish is so hilarious, someone should translate that back into English via it.
4 Alan // Mar 26, 2007 at 4:16 am

Oops, I missed the previous Mixi post – just noticed now. May I have an invitiation me too, please?!
5 Kyle Eppard // Mar 26, 2007 at 10:29 am

I, as well, want an invitation. Don't worry about it if you have a limited amount and would rather keep them. It's not that important to me.
6 Sluggo // Mar 26, 2007 at 11:51 am

Hey, that's MY botched Japanese intro! And don't worry, I'm not embarrassed… I was actually shooting for the reverse-Engrish effect–I would never expect anyone to think Systran belches up passable translation in ANY language. I was hoping to a) get the message across that I can't read/write/speak/understand Japanese and b) get a chuckle. Glad to see I stirred something up, anyway ^_^.

Oh, and here's my original text after 5 rounds of chewing by Babelfish:

私の日本人は大きくないが、私は力を英国の特徴が示される事実を試みることができるという事実とのすべて排出した!
7 Carl // Mar 26, 2007 at 12:46 pm

I found it quite easily!! Yeah!
8 Trever Shick // Mar 26, 2007 at 10:02 pm

Yeah, I need a mixi invite as well. Thanks to anyone that can send me one!
9 Steven // Mar 27, 2007 at 5:23 am

I have been wanting to join Mixi since I read Rich's article. I would love an invitation if you have any, thanks!!

s.
10 ArturoC // Mar 28, 2007 at 2:25 am

I've been wanting to look around on Mixi ever since I first heard it mentioned here. Invite please.
11 Anonymous // Mar 31, 2007 at 3:26 am

I have been trying to join Mixi for months.. -.-;; My friend said he was gunna invite me, but he has yet to.. I asked him about it. but it seems hes just not going to do it.. Lol Some friend, eh? But yeah, could someone hook me up with an invite? It will be very much appticated. muh e-mail is

some_guy_tim@yahoo.com
12 jo // Apr 2, 2008 at 12:21 pm

Hi, I've been living in Japan for 10 years, and only just heard about mixi.
Would love an invite if there's anyone who can help!
Thanks

Jo