I thought I´d try with one of Syd Barrett´s most cryptic verses:-
Bam, spastic, tactile engine
heaving, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
I'll have them, fried bloke
broken jardy, cardy, smoocho, moocho, paki, pufftle
sploshette moxy, very smelly,
cable, gable, splintra, channel
top the seam he's taken off
This passage is so bizarre that I hoped translating to English would make some changes, though surprisingly not; all the words were accepted as being English.
After running it through Cebuano, Italian and Latin, it came back to English as:-
Bam, spastic, whole body except as mahikap Makino
mobanlas healthy body only as SA, crackle, slinky, dormy, roofy, wham
Ko Sila, fritto Titii
Jardy his Cardy, smoocho, mooch, Paki, pufftle
sploshette moxy, whole body except as baho kaayo,
Hole, eardrum, splintra, deals
ibabaw ako siya confronted tinahian gikuha
( I noticed in passing that "Bam" is an extraordinarily resilient, international word - something worth remembering next time you visit a foreign country. )
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