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#21
One time a few years ago, I bought a cheapo Spanish-to-English translator program from the bargain bin at a Staples. At the time, I was working for a company where most of the customer sites were in Latin America (I'm a computer consultant). So just for laughs, I fed into that translator a technical document written in Spanish, and the English translation was hilarious!
 
#23
Speaking another languge to me is very cool. As much as morph is well, a frenchie, I must admit I admire the quality of his english and even more writing ability.

Being able to speak two languages like that is great.

Next he's going to tell us he can speak mandarin and arabic too.

Arhhh.


The lanuage translators would be funny. I don't any spannish but it amazes my how so many americans can speak part spannish and south americans can speak english.
 
#26
morf said:
You're proofreading french with only two years of french from school? Ouch.

If you have trouble over something dont hesitate to PM me by the way :)
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Well, I do have the actual translation to proof against. I have to make sure it's the same and my head is spinning. We recently had a big debacle when someone went in and deleted all the spaces before the colons on the French label. In English we have no space before a colon. We had to go back and fix 50+ labels. BLAH! And I guess I should have PMed you when we were going back and forth between "mat" and "mate" (it's paint labels). I had to try to remember when to use the feminine. I may just PM you if we have more questions! Thanks!
 
#27
mlowe said:
Speaking another languge to me is very cool. As much as morph is well, a frenchie, I must admit I admire the quality of his english and even more writing ability.

Being able to speak two languages like that is great.

Next he's going to tell us he can speak mandarin and arabic too.

Arhhh.


The lanuage translators would be funny. I don't any spannish but it amazes my how so many americans can speak part spannish and south americans can speak english.
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No I only speak english and french. Some spanish, but not fluently at all, same goes for arabic, japanese, chinese, german, italian, portuguese, and bits of croatian.
 
#28
disenchant said:
Well, I do have the actual translation to proof against. I have to make sure it's the same and my head is spinning. We recently had a big debacle when someone went in and deleted all the spaces before the colons on the French label. In English we have no space before a colon. We had to go back and fix 50+ labels. BLAH! And I guess I should have PMed you when we were going back and forth between "mat" and "mate" (it's paint labels). I had to try to remember when to use the feminine. I may just PM you if we have more questions! Thanks!
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My pleasure :) I wasn't aware the french put the space before the colons though, I always put the space after it, and AFAIK, everyone around here does so too. Maybe it was just the particular stuff you translated that was like this.
 
#32
morf said:
No I only speak english and french. Some spanish, but not fluently at all, same goes for arabic, japanese, chinese, german, italian, portuguese, and bits of croatian.
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I knew it.......


Hey, buy the way, here many people say that when they visit france, they find the french arrogant in terms of language. Others I know say it's more that if you don't make at least some effort to speak the language, french people don't appreciate this much.

I'd like to think the latter is the case, what's you view on this?

I have to get rid of this keyboard, it's forever messing up. :(
 
#38
mlowe said:
I knew it.......


Hey, buy the way, here many people say that when they visit france, they find the french arrogant in terms of language. Others I know say it's more that if you don't make at least some effort to speak the language, french people don't appreciate this much.

I'd like to think the latter is the case, what's you view on this?

I have to get rid of this keyboard, it's forever messing up. :(
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The latter is exactly it. And generally there is a good reason for it. I've heard so many people say things like "Doesn't anybody here speak english?" in an outraged tone in restaurants in France that I dont disagree with some remarks the french may tell tourists who make no effort in the least to learn common french words like Merci or S'il vous plait.
 

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