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21 December 2010 at 5:29pm | IP Logged

Pleiades wrote:

I'd never trust an online translator! I implore you to translate a few simple sentences into a random language on Google Translate and then translate it back. You will be amazed at how distorted the result will be, it's often hillarious. Neither can they cope with figurative speech, idioms or any other subleties of expression, it's purely literal.

Sometimes they get it right, particularly with western European languages.

Try typing in "No lo tomes tan a pecho", ES > EN. It's a good, figurative translation.

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