Thread: Things that are common in fiction but not in your real life
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Old 03-20-2021, 12:58 PM   #111
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin View Post
This may well be worth considerably less than the proverbial hill of beans, but using Google Translate to render your phrase into German, Italian, French and Hindi all seemed (as far as I could tell from my varying comfort levels with those languages) to render it in the way you did not intend it to be parsed.
It would be disturbing if Google Translate rendered the same English input into different meanings in different languages (to the extent that same meaning is possible). A better test would be different translation engines (not just different brands of the same engine).

However, over the years, I have misunderstood DiapDealer's intended meaning many times, including this one. That might often be my fault, but I don't think that is always the case.
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