Lost in Translation

by Saxifrage

(and http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/)



Can you identify these phrases? They’ve been machine-translated into and out of French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and back into something that vaguely resembles English.
(There are six proverbs, two song lyrics, two song titles, a Shakespeare title, a nursery rhyme line, a literary quotation, a tongue twister, and a familiar phrase.)
 

1. A bird in how much he evaluates any two in the value of shrubs.

2. All the sleeve of, of that the extremities there is dew outside

3. Maria, Maria, totally opposite, as it develops his garden?

4. The federation characterizes of the association of the hearts of the pepper of the sergeant

5. The bird receives the continuous screw soon.

6. Still we give the form to the chain of the time.

7. Easy speech and takes a great post to it.

8. It was better periods, he was defective of the periods.

9. A horse of the gift in the opening does not consider.

10. It is evaluates thousand values of the words.

11. Movement that oscillates low, force of motivatings of the automobile

12. You do not produce in my blue ice-slides of Sweden.

13. How much marmot of the wood America to play, if marmot of America that a wood could play?

14. This precipitation of imbeciles to the interior, where scared angels, the end to go.

15. The hour speaks or it always arrests them for its peace.

The answer to this puzzle
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