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Internet Translation!

If you are trying to read things that are not in your language on the Internet, there's a few more or less helpful tools to use that offer machine translation. I'm sure you have all been victim of those already - as sometimes, things get quietly murdered translated and appear, for instance, in a facebook feed or on a shop webpage and you wonder about the curiously bad grammar and the utterly weird choice of words, or find it completely incomprehensible.

There's a new kid on the block, though, and it's called DeepL. I've tested it a tiny little bit, and so far, it has been really, really good - and perfectly comprehensible up until now, even if the English I've translated the German to is not always perfect.

So in case you need something translated from or into the languages German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Polish, give it a try. It's definitely a large step up from what you'd get on Babelfish and other machine translators.
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Heather on Monday, 25 September 2017 13:07

An example of the perils of search engine translation:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39490537

Apparently it should have said, "Local homes for local people."

Romans, they go the house.

An example of the perils of search engine translation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39490537 Apparently it should have said, "Local homes for local people." Romans, they go the house.
Katrin on Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:54

Yup, search engines can do... interesting things to texts. So can humans, though, when they misread or misunderstand. Or, in some cases, think they know better ; )
It's good to have the helpful machines, though, even if they can't cope with every text.

Yup, search engines can do... interesting things to texts. So can humans, though, when they misread or misunderstand. Or, in some cases, think they know better ; ) It's good to have the helpful machines, though, even if they can't cope with every text.
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