Fake Germanizer

I ran into a problem where I needed to guess how something would look in German, without knowing a single drop of German. So, I pulled up Mozilla's XPath documents and made a small bookmarklet. It's far from perfect, but it definitely has its uses when you're trying to estimate how items will look before they reach a translation team... even if the first use was messing with my Twitter feed.

[Fauxgermanhausen das Pagen! (bookmarklet)](javascript:%28function%28%29%7Bvar%20prefixes%3D%5B%27%27%2C%27glocken%27%2C%27das%27%2C%27borfa%27%2C%27maushe%27%2C%27uber%27%5D%2Csuffixes%3D%5B%27%27%2C%27hausen%27%2C%27%20die%20vander%27%2C%27gleuten%27%2C%27noshan%27%2C%27flagellan%27%2C%27mek%27%2C%27dak%27%2C%27en%20das%27%2C%27ga%27%5D%2CxPathResult%3Ddocument.evaluate%28%27.//text%28%29%5Bnormalize-space%28.%29%21%3D%27%27%5D%27%2Cdocument.body%2Cnull%2CXPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE%2Cnull%29%2Ci%2CtextNode%2Ccnt%2Cout%2Cj%2Cpfx%2Csfx%3Bfor%28i%3D0%2Cl%3DxPathResult.snapshotLength%3Bi%3Cl%3Bi++%29%7BtextNode%3DxPathResult.snapshotItem%28i%29%3Bif%28textNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase%28%29%3D%3D%27script%27%7C%7CtextNode.tagName%3D%3D%27style%27%29continue%3Bcnt%3DtextNode.data.split%28/s/g%29%3Bout%3D%5B%5D%3Bfor%28j%3D0%3Bj%3Ccnt.length%3Bj++%29%7Bif%28cnt%5Bj%5D.replace%28/%5Bs%5D/g%2C%27%27%29%3D%3D%27%27%29continue%3Bpfx%3D%28%21Math.floor%28Math.random%28%2910%29%29%3F%27%27%3Aprefixes%5BMath.floor%28Math.random%28%29prefixes.length%29%5D%3Bsfx%3D%28%21Math.floor%28Math.random%28%2910%29%29%3F%27%27%3Asuffixes%5BMath.floor%28Math.random%28%29suffixes.length%29%5D%3Bout.push%28pfx+cnt%5Bj%5D+sfx%29%3B%7DtextNode.data%3D%27%20%27+out.join%28%27%20%27%29+%27%20%27%3B%7D%7D%29%28%29%3B)

    (function () {
      var prefixes = ["", "glocken", "das", "borfa", "maushe", "uber"],
        suffixes = [
          "",
          "hausen",
          " die vander",
          "gleuten",
          "noshan",
          "flagellan",
          "mek",
          "dak",
          "en das",
          "ga",
        ],
        xPathResult = document.evaluate(
          ".//text()[normalize-space(.)!='']",
          document.body,
          null,
          XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
          null
        ),
        i,
        textNode,
        cnt,
        out,
        j,
        pfx,
        sfx;
      for (i = 0, l = xPathResult.snapshotLength; i < l; i++) {
        textNode = xPathResult.snapshotItem(i);
        if (
          textNode.parentNode.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "script" ||
          textNode.tagName == "style"
        )
          continue;
        cnt = textNode.data.split(/\s/g);
        out = [];
        for (j = 0; j < cnt.length; j++) {
          if (cnt[j].replace(/[\s]/g, "") == "") continue;
          pfx = !Math.floor(Math.random() * 10)
            ? ""
            : prefixes[Math.floor(Math.random() * prefixes.length)];
          sfx = !Math.floor(Math.random() * 10)
            ? ""
            : suffixes[Math.floor(Math.random() * suffixes.length)];
          out.push(pfx + cnt[j] + sfx);
        }
        textNode.data = " " + out.join(" ") + " ";
      }
    })();