Party till equilibrium

Unless you have a perfect translation engine, translating a phrase back and forth between two languages will be an iterative process. This is what the Translation Party does with English and Japanese: you type in a phrase in English, and then it uses some translation engine to convert that phrase into Japanese, then from Japanese back to English and so on, until it reaches an equilibrium, realizes it will never reach equilibrium, or just crashes. The equilibrium phrase usually has nothing to do with the initial phrase, and sometimes it doesn't even have much to do with English as we know it. It's also possible for the process to start oscillating forever between two or more pairs of phrases. At any rate, it's a lot of fun.

(HT: The R Blog)