My musings on the lack of grammar nazis

[ThePeacent]

I'll wait for the TARDIS' universal translator to hit the market...

[lister]

I guess it gives a rough translation more than anything That way a person can get the jist of it at least

Usually, yes. But how can you be sure if you don´t know the language that´s being translated?

Use several translators based on different technologies and compare the results? 

Clever. I´m not sure there are any different technologies.

O ye, of little faith:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_machine_translation_applications

 

[Ron Who]

Thanks. I´m not in IT anymore, haven´t been for 20 years. Guess I need to catch up a bit.

[raistlin65]

I guess it gives a rough translation more than anything That way a person can get the jist of it at least

Usually, yes. But how can you be sure if you don´t know the language that´s being translated?

Sometimes we can tell by context.

I took one course in Spanish during college. It was a Spanish text translation course, no writing and speaking. Reading only. And pretty quickly, I learned to be able to read the basics from a newspaper in Spanish as long as I had a dictionary handy. It was partially because I could process the information based on context. It wasn't always perfect, but by the end of that semester, I could often get the gist of it.

[ThePeacent]

I guess it gives a rough translation more than anything That way a person can get the jist of it at least

Usually, yes. But how can you be sure if you don´t know the language that´s being translated?

Sometimes we can tell by context.

I took one course in Spanish during college. It was a Spanish text translation course, no writing and speaking. Reading only. And pretty quickly, I learned to be able to read the basics from a newspaper in Spanish as long as I had a dictionary handy. It was partially because I could process the information based on context. It wasn't always perfect, but by the end of that semester, I could often get the gist of it.

bien, bien.   
El Español es bastante fácil en comparación con muchas otras lenguas (Alemán, Chino, Árabe...) y bastante asequible...incluso aunque sea a través del Spanglish.   

 

[raistlin65]

I guess it gives a rough translation more than anything That way a person can get the jist of it at least

Usually, yes. But how can you be sure if you don´t know the language that´s being translated?

Sometimes we can tell by context.

I took one course in Spanish during college. It was a Spanish text translation course, no writing and speaking. Reading only. And pretty quickly, I learned to be able to read the basics from a newspaper in Spanish as long as I had a dictionary handy. It was partially because I could process the information based on context. It wasn't always perfect, but by the end of that semester, I could often get the gist of it.

bien, bien.   
El Español es bastante fácil en comparación con muchas otras lenguas (Alemán, Chino, Árabe...) y bastante asequible...incluso aunque sea a través del Spanglish.   

 

I didn't say I had a Spanish dictionary handy now. 

[Syncop8r]

bien, bien.   
El Español es bastante fácil en comparación con muchas otras lenguas (Alemán, Chino, Árabe...) y bastante asequible...incluso aunque sea a través del Spanglish.   

I don't know any Spanish, so here goes....
Spanish is very? hard? in comprison to many other languages (?, Chinese, Arbaic...).... ahhh ya lost me. 

[El Corkscrew]

I want to try!

bien, bien.   
El Español es bastante fácil en comparación con muchas otras lenguas (Alemán, Chino, Árabe...) y bastante asequible...incluso aunque sea a través del Spanglish.

Spanish is basically simple in comparison to many other languages, German, Chinese, Arabic and understandable including spanglish?

[Syncop8r]

Makes more sense than my attempt...

[ThePeacent]

I want to try!

bien, bien.   
El Español es bastante fácil en comparación con muchas otras lenguas (Alemán, Chino, Árabe...) y bastante asequible...incluso aunque sea a través del Spanglish.

Spanish is basically simple in comparison to many other languages, German, Chinese, Arabic and understandable including spanglish?

that's a very nice translation   

[pfrsantos]

Pretty easy. The portuguese just put lots of Is in portuguese words and say lots of La and Lo and they convince themselves they're talking spanish...

Portuguese:
A língua espanhola é muito fácil de aprender e de falar em pouco tempo.

Spanholese:
La língua espanhiola és muito fiácil de apriendier e de faliar em piouco tiempo.

 

[ThePeacent]

Pretty easy. The portuguese just put lots of Is in portuguese words and say lots of La and Lo and they convince themselves they're talking spanish...

Portuguese:
A língua espanhola é muito fácil de aprender e de falar em pouco tempo.

Spanholese:
La língua espanhiola és muito fiácil de apriendier e de faliar em piouco tiempo.

 

Hahaha that's very true, as is the fact that we Spaniards speak Portuguese by adding -ais and -ão to the end of most words