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English to German translations [Non-PRO] Tech/Engineering - Internet, e-Commerce / Name Search
English term or phrase:Twitter
I recently performed a search for the word Twitter in the ProZ.com data base and found nothing for this technology, network, and company name -- neither in French, German, nor Spanish. I know it exists in Japanese, because all I had to do was discover its katakana equivalent. What is it called in German?
Twitter – Wikipedia
Twitter ist ein soziales Netzwerk und ein Mikro-Blogging-Dienst. Angemeldete Benutzer können Textnachrichten mit maximal 140 Zeichen senden und die ...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter - 85k - Im Cache - Ähnliche Seiten
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If you do a search on the key word "Twitter" and set the language to German, Google will produce something like 7.8 million pages
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Go to Google "preferences", set your Search Language to German by clicking the box next to "German". Alternatively, click "Advanced Search" from the Google Main Page and select the desired language in the pull-down menu next to the heading "Need more tools?" Your Google interface might be different from mine, though, as there may be a US version of Google and an international English version.
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For a Google serach I don't need to do what you do, R.A. The German interface of Google is different from the English version. All I have to do is select the desired search language, period. I do searches in different languages, and changing the search language is a breeze--just one mouseclick.
1) Obviously Volkmar was first, and one must reward both accuracy and speed in translation.
2) Like Goldcoaster I learned something very important: choosing the German language and selecting the .de domain yields two very different results. There are about twice as many German speakers online who use the word Twitter as there are German speakers who do the same with German domain names. In contrast, the vast majority of Germans live in Germany. This is only an approximate statistic about German internet behavior, but still very revealing.
3) Special note to Katheen: I would ask just why Twitter should not be translated? The Japanese translate everything in the moment that they write a foreign "loan word" in katakana and speak it accordingly.
4) Special note to Heike: Als der Name einer neuen Technologie braucht man keinen Artikel; man schreibt eher die Twitter-Funktion, das Twitter-Phänomen, und der Twitter-Meister.
There are two language settings for Google, sibsab. One is the language of your interface, the other is the language you want to serach in. If you want to do a search in a language different from your default language (usually the language of your OS), all you have to do is select the relevant search language. I wouldn't want to change my preferences unless I would always do my searches in one specific language.
Ich habe es bisher immer nur ohne Artikel gesehen, also z. B. "Twitter ist das neue Medium blabla", "Auf Twitter werden kurze Nachrichten veröffentlicht blabla". Ist wohl das gleiche Problem wie bei der/die/das Google...
What exactly are you looking for? "Twitter" is "Twitter" in German. Unfortunately, I don't speak Japanese, so I don't know what you are refering to ;-)
Rebekka Groß Local time: 07:49 Specializes in field Native speaker of: German PRO pts in category: 10
3 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +16
twitter
Twitter
Explanation:
Twitter – Wikipedia
Twitter ist ein soziales Netzwerk und ein Mikro-Blogging-Dienst. Angemeldete Benutzer können Textnachrichten mit maximal 140 Zeichen senden und die ...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter - 85k - Im Cache - Ähnliche Seiten
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 mins (2009-05-13 16:34:18 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
If you do a search on the key word "Twitter" and set the language to German, Google will produce something like 7.8 million pages
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 32 mins (2009-05-13 17:01:01 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Go to Google "preferences", set your Search Language to German by clicking the box next to "German". Alternatively, click "Advanced Search" from the Google Main Page and select the desired language in the pull-down menu next to the heading "Need more tools?" Your Google interface might be different from mine, though, as there may be a US version of Google and an international English version.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2009-05-13 17:53:09 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
For a Google serach I don't need to do what you do, R.A. The German interface of Google is different from the English version. All I have to do is select the desired search language, period. I do searches in different languages, and changing the search language is a breeze--just one mouseclick.
LegalTrans D Local time: 09:49 Native speaker of: German PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Several comments about my selection:
1) Obviously Volkmar was first, and one must reward both accuracy and speed in translation.
2) Like Goldcoaster I learned something very important: choosing the German language and selecting the .de domain yields two very different results. There are about twice as many German speakers online who use the word Twitter as there are German speakers who do the same with German domain names. In contrast, the vast majority of Germans live in Germany. This is only an approximate statistic about German internet behavior, but still very revealing.
3) Special note to Katheen: I would ask just why Twitter should not be translated? The Japanese translate everything in the moment that they write a foreign "loan word" in katakana and speak it accordingly.
4) Special note to Heike: Als der Name einer neuen Technologie braucht man keinen Artikel; man schreibt eher die Twitter-Funktion, das Twitter-Phänomen, und der Twitter-Meister.
Once again, ProZ.com has proven its worth!
Thanks everyone!
Roddy
Notes to answerer
Asker: . . . And how to you set the Google search to German?
Asker: I took a slightly different, perhaps easier route and came up with all English pages bearing a German domain name. Try searching for the following and see what you come up with. Google Search Entry: twitter site:.de
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peer agreement (net): +2
