https://www.icyphoenix.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=6686&p=46030#p46030
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Lopalong
Wed 18 Nov, 2009 23:22

Re: Google Translator
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Yeah! Yros you're right in some ways but you miss the main point.

Hal9000 wrote a good piece on auto-translators, but I can't find it to quote it. The point that he made was that people should not use slang and should use a spell-checker (in their own language) to check the validity of their text before submitting it.

[size=18][b]Pigs might fly too.[/b][/size]

On the other hand there are those who write what they think is English, or any other language for that matter and assume that it would translate somewhat flawlessly. ?

No offence but something like this, [b][i]just for understand the main meaning of a sentence for sample[/i][/b] may translate to something different when written like this:

"just for understanding the main meaning of a sentence for example"

Anyway, I'm like Mike and use translators quite often; and while they may not be perfect at least with this translator one does not have to cut and paste different bits and pieces to work out what is being said as it stays "live" from page to page.

And that my friend, is a bonus. So all congratulations go to Google for a very useful tool. :P


