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Can anyone translate this for me please?
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(03-16-2019, 05:38 PM)Channalee Wrote: I would have resorted to Google Translate, except the last time I used Google Translate, I got this:
 
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Lesson learned:  Don't use Google Translate.

One way to use Google translate is to carry out an (admittedly rudimentary) accuracy check, as follows:
Take the resulting translation and have Google Translate translate it back into English. 
Does it make sense when translated back? This gives you an idea of the accuracy.

Once I needed to rebut Palestinian Arab propaganda into an answer that needed to be in French. 
By carrying out the above form of checking I could see that the translation as it stood did not make sense. I kept changing the original English wording so that after a few attempts, when the French translation was translated back into English, it made sense. 

I never got criticism from French readers of the translated text when I carried out that form of checking, but I did get criticism from the French readers if I did not carry out that checking!
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RE: Can anyone translate this for me please? - by Baruch - 03-16-2019, 04:50 PM
RE: Can anyone translate this for me please? - by Baruch - 03-16-2019, 05:17 PM
RE: Can anyone translate this for me please? - by Baruch - 03-16-2019, 10:33 PM
RE: Can anyone translate this for me please? - by Robert - 10-14-2021, 07:58 PM
RE: Can anyone translate this for me please? - by Baruch - 03-17-2019, 04:07 PM

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