Here's a source of word play. It uses babelfish to machine translate text a number of times between languages. This is not my cup of tea, but I do know some poets like to take advantage of found or automatically generated text. The results are, erm, interesting!
http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
Here are some examples, using F.W.Cornish's translations of Catullus (Loeb), a somewhat more elegant source than the digital fish could ever achieve (I couldn't resist the irony of using translations from the classics). Translation a) uses European languages, b) uses far eastern languages as well.
XCIII: I have no very great desire to make myself agreeable to you, Ceasar, nor to know whether your complexion is light or dark.
a) N'ai the great desire very of always not knowing how him around the end to go agradavelmente with Ceasar, if the relative will of the color is shiningly or to a density.
b) Of you in l'ordre this density of this ordered form to wish extremely shutdowns with l'amicizia l'azienda of qu'elle and l'iss and her d'iss he clears and the light extends no, the one that interests the skin, he, its indication to indicate of will refrán here of Yoo, the forms and and and Ceasari its function and and he inside as much must be accentuated.
LXXXV: I hate and love. Why I do so, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it, and I am in torment.
a) Hatred and I appreciated. Because I request therefore, possibly the white man of no, but the creed and I are in the Quaelerei.
b) Qu'il l'avversione, similar is he appreciates that, because, probably demands it extended e. The qu'il one extended and it does not know, that it extends it, but e, of this place goes totally, creates.
CXII: You are many men's man, Naso, but not many men go down town with you: Naso, you are many men's man and minion.
a) They are man of many men's, nose, but same d'hommes you come underneath the city with: The nose is subordinated, it equips and of
many men's.
b) Many men' The S is this person more when whacker of the nose, he, but majority, that is determined, qu'il the city, of that obstructed in him,: it smells many of men' Person of C'est one and one stars of the mobilization.
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