At one point many moons ago I had some fun taking Englisch phrases or sentences and running through several Google language translations. What I found was that after a point, the hash created of the original tended to stabilize no matter how many other languages you ran it through. Which says something about their translation software...
...but I'm not sure exactly what at my current level of exhaustion.
I’ve done that, too. I haven’t tried it on Babelfish, though.