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The Babel Fish is a small, leech-like, yellow fish, and by putting this into one's ear one can instantly understand anything said in any language; this is how Arthur Dent is able to comprehend the other beings he encounters on his travels. The Babel fish has led to significant and profound consequences for the Universe; apart from the philosophical implications, the Babel fish has started more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation, because it has removed all barriers to communication.

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rdfs:label
  • Babel fish
  • Babel Fish
rdfs:comment
  • The Babel Fish is a small, leech-like, yellow fish, and by putting this into one's ear one can instantly understand anything said in any language; this is how Arthur Dent is able to comprehend the other beings he encounters on his travels. The Babel fish has led to significant and profound consequences for the Universe; apart from the philosophical implications, the Babel fish has started more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation, because it has removed all barriers to communication.
  • As for the Babel Fish the order which is AltaVista which has been based (as for Yahoo on the current left! ) The application some machine which is developed in other things the text of 1 is the Web page translated plural languages? As for that name of the Babel Fish, the headbanging animal which is used for the immediately translation of language in the novel of Douglas Adams is taken the guide of hitch-hiker of the galaxy. Technology of translation for the Babel fish is offered the technical oven it is by SYSTRAN which operates the translator where Google and some other place have been attached.
  • The practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
  • The Babel Fish is one of the most peculiar, useful and controversial organisms known in the entire Universe. This small non-sapient being lives in the brain of other creatures and feeds on "brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it". By unintentionally converting sound waves into brain waves and excreting those into the mind of its host, it actually works as a universal translator and enables its carrier to understand any spoken language, no matter how strange.
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  • 0(xsd:integer)
Length
  • 1024(xsd:integer)
biname
  • Babel fish
dcterms:subject
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dbkwik:uncyclopedi...iPageUsesTemplate
Special
  • Mind-destroying babel
Power
  • 22(xsd:integer)
Status
  • Online, ready for input
Kingdom
  • Animalia
Name
  • Babel fish
MP
  • 120(xsd:integer)
Intel
  • 13(xsd:integer)
sec arm
  • Misinformation, Translation
conserv
  • Unique
pri arm
  • Confusion, chatter
Weight
  • 0.0
Species
  • Babel
Genus
  • Osteichthyes
Class
  • Yahoo!
dbkwik:hitchhikers...iPageUsesTemplate
IQ
  • 160(xsd:integer)
Family
  • Vertebrata
HP
  • 10(xsd:integer)
Order
  • AltaVista
Phylum
  • Chordata
magical properties
  • Understands all languages, speaks none of them
potatoe storage
  • None!
abstract
  • The Babel Fish is one of the most peculiar, useful and controversial organisms known in the entire Universe. This small non-sapient being lives in the brain of other creatures and feeds on "brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it". By unintentionally converting sound waves into brain waves and excreting those into the mind of its host, it actually works as a universal translator and enables its carrier to understand any spoken language, no matter how strange. By effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, the Babel Fish has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the Universe.
  • As for the Babel Fish the order which is AltaVista which has been based (as for Yahoo on the current left! ) The application some machine which is developed in other things the text of 1 is the Web page translated plural languages? As for that name of the Babel Fish, the headbanging animal which is used for the immediately translation of language in the novel of Douglas Adams is taken the guide of hitch-hiker of the galaxy. Technology of translation for the Babel fish is offered the technical oven it is by SYSTRAN which operates the translator where Google and some other place have been attached. The English, simplified form letter, the complex sentence, it can translate that between Dutch, French, German, Fine Print, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Jerk, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Wikipedian. While the method of using for translation advances, service does not require in order to create complete translation: Being required it is best and it is to be able make that the reader obtains gist of the page or the text possible. As for quality of translation English - it is influenced (there is passable by language of French question, it is possible, but Japanese - English usually queer word is created). The place of several humor language above the funny result and one (translation "of generally known round trip travelling") in between, the use Babelfish service which is translated generally on front and back leapt on that.
  • The Babel Fish is a small, leech-like, yellow fish, and by putting this into one's ear one can instantly understand anything said in any language; this is how Arthur Dent is able to comprehend the other beings he encounters on his travels. The Babel fish has led to significant and profound consequences for the Universe; apart from the philosophical implications, the Babel fish has started more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation, because it has removed all barriers to communication.
  • The practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is whte and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best selling book 'Well That About Wraps It Up For God'. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different race and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
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