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I translate FROM Italian, not to it, and, well, most of the times, I don't understand the result. (It's likely Google Translate is better at going from English
by bambax 9y ago
I translate FROM Italian, not to it, and, well, most of the times, I don't understand the result.
(It's likely Google Translate is better at going from English to another language, since it seems it uses English as a pivot. In fact that's how I use it if I want to write something in, say, German; I write in English, and check the French translation, and rephrase and rephrase, and don't accept the German version until the French translation is acceptable).
Going back to Italian, here's a small example: Non potevano dirlo solo gli adulti?, which really means, I think, "Isn't it something only adults would say?" is translated by Google in English as:
Could not only adults tell it?
which doesn't seem to mean anything, and in French as:
Les adultes ne pourraient-ils pas le dire?
which means something, but a different thing from the English translation, and, I think, not the correct interpretation of the original Italian one.