I take it the person who made this meme never sat through a Latin class.
If you translate it from Latin to English as shown, you do get this result, but if you reverse it to back translate "Do what you want" from English to Latin, the translator does a better job of it.
Latin to English: Do what you want
English to Latin: fac sicut vis.
It was interesting to see that subtext suggesting using Hausa of all things. West African languages aren't even close to Latin. They're not in the PIE language family, meaning they're very different. So, out of curiosity, I tried it.
Hausa to English: I don't eat anymore
English to Hausa: Ba na ci kuma
The Google translator is making big errors with this, and it's notorious for being unreliable, especially with short phrases. I don't know what exactly it's detecting, but these aren't legitimate translations. The connection to Alastair Crowley is spurious at best.
Google Translate is programmable. If you are logged in, you can input 'alternative' translations.
If "ba len ci aga" isn't even Latin, there would NOT be an existing legit translation for it, so one could simply select "language" = latin, input the text sting, and then provide a 'translation'.
I take it the person who made this meme never sat through a Latin class.
If you translate it from Latin to English as shown, you do get this result, but if you reverse it to back translate "Do what you want" from English to Latin, the translator does a better job of it.
It was interesting to see that subtext suggesting using Hausa of all things. West African languages aren't even close to Latin. They're not in the PIE language family, meaning they're very different. So, out of curiosity, I tried it.
The Google translator is making big errors with this, and it's notorious for being unreliable, especially with short phrases. I don't know what exactly it's detecting, but these aren't legitimate translations. The connection to Alastair Crowley is spurious at best.
Google Translate is programmable. If you are logged in, you can input 'alternative' translations.
If "ba len ci aga" isn't even Latin, there would NOT be an existing legit translation for it, so one could simply select "language" = latin, input the text sting, and then provide a 'translation'.
I strongly suspect that's what happened here.
(signed, professional translator for MANY years)