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Babelfishing 

'Babelfishing' or 'to Babelfish.'

It's something that people on the web (usually with a big mouth and a fake attitude) do when they want to look smart.

When something is said in a different language, they translate it with Altavista Babelfish and pretend to be smart and come with the translation like... Five minutes later.
Pissed off person: OMG this makes me so angry, I'll just say this in french.. VOTRE MÈRE EST UNE PUTAIN!

<5 minutes later>

Annoying and pretend to be smart person (pretended to be away that five minutes): My mother is no whore! Yours is!

Pissed off person: You STUPID n00b you're just Babelfishing!!
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babelfishit 

Literally means "look it up on Babelfish.com", a website that translates text from one language to another. Has insulting connatations, stemming from the inclusion of the term " fish shit " in the word.
Mary: I want to spend the rest of my life with you, mi amor.

Dave: Huh? What'd you call me?

Mary: ( annoyed ) Babelfishit!!
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babelphishing 

Phishing scams that contains numerous grammatical errors, as if they were run through an automated translation service (such as Babelfish or Google Translate).
Adam: "It says I violated their Terms of Service."
Bob: "Yeah, but look at all the grammar mistakes. Some scammer is just babelphishing for your account info."