Off topic: The Babel Award for MT in Business Marketing Thread poster: Margaret Schroeder
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If such an award doesn\'t exist, it ought to. The slogan could be \"International Marketing at it\'s Best\" (apostrophe deliberate). If your language is French, German, Spanish or Italian, don\'t miss this site which has already been enjoyed at various other translator sites.
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Parrot 
Spain
Local time: 22:51
Spanish to English
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| El camarero altamente asegurado... | Feb 10, 2003 |
Highly secure server  among other things...
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| Simply incredible!! | Feb 10, 2003 |
The power of machine translation. I like the Italian for Privacy Policy (Linea di condotta di intimità)!!!
Great site indeed!!
Thanks for sharing.
[ This Message was edited by:on2003-02-10 19:28]
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On 2003-02-10 17:06, Parrot wrote:
Highly secure server among other things...
Perhaps the \"waiters\" (as servers came out in Spanish) go swimming in the many \"piscinas\" on their breaks. (\"500 strong pool of technical professionals\" was translated into Spanish as \"500 swimming pools, strong of technical professionals\").
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what site are you looking at? I don\'t see a link.
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Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 22:51
Member (2002)
English to German
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| Here we go, Rachel... | Feb 13, 2003 |
http://www.atcomdcm.com/languages/german/dcm/default1.asp
It was just hidden behind the hyperlinked \"this site\" bit in the first message.
The \"translation\" effort looks familiar - we\'ve \"discussed\" it just the other day in the German forum.
Real goodies, amongst many others:
\"Sehr gesicherten Diener für Daten\"... See more http://www.atcomdcm.com/languages/german/dcm/default1.asp
It was just hidden behind the hyperlinked \"this site\" bit in the first message.
The \"translation\" effort looks familiar - we\'ve \"discussed\" it just the other day in the German forum.
Real goodies, amongst many others:
\"Sehr gesicherten Diener für Daten\"
\"Wanderung von Existieren Daten\"
Steffen 
P.S. The proposed award should be renamed to \"Babblefish Award\", FWIW. ▲ Collapse
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Elena Sgarbo (X)
Italian to English
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| ...And I can only assume that when they wrote the colorful sentence: | Feb 14, 2003 |
[Mezclar tradicional “Ladrillo y Mortero” el enfoque con “el chasquido y el mortero” el modelo]
...they meant:
To blend the traditional \"brick and mortar\" approach with the \"click and mortar\" model.
[ This Message was edited by:on2003-02-15 14:17]
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nimrodtran
Spain
Member (2014)
English to Spanish
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| These are the guys... | Feb 15, 2003 |
that are paying 0.02 USD per word.
You pay peanuts, you get monkey business...
Regards,
Emilio
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On 2003-02-15 10:55, nimrodtran wrote:
that are paying 0.02 USD per word.
You pay peanuts, you get monkey business...
Do you think anyone was paid, beyond a technician who zipped it through a machine translation program? These \"translations\" smell computer-generated.
Nevertheless, at the German forum, there is an account from a ProZer ... See more Quote:
On 2003-02-15 10:55, nimrodtran wrote:
that are paying 0.02 USD per word.
You pay peanuts, you get monkey business...
Do you think anyone was paid, beyond a technician who zipped it through a machine translation program? These \"translations\" smell computer-generated.
Nevertheless, at the German forum, there is an account from a ProZer who wrote the company a polite note, and they wrote back excusing themselves, saying that they knew the German version might have some problems, but, you see, it was translated by an Austrian  It makes you wonder what the excuses would be for the Spanish, Italian and French versions.
[ This Message was edited by:on2003-02-15 15:44] ▲ Collapse
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| And, pray, was he an illiterate Austrian? | Feb 15, 2003 |
And you thought you had heard it all! My jaw hit the floor when I read this Austrian excuse. It is so outrageous, it is not even funny (especially not for Austrians I guess).
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