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HP à L’École des Sorciers + google
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juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5028 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French	Message 1 of 3 06 February 2012 at 1:30pm \| IP Logged
	I'm sorry but my knowledge is not good enough yet to write this all in french but I hope it is ok... I'm working on the text of the first Harry Potter book and got stuck on the title. The french title is "Harry Potter à L'École des Sorciers" and the original title is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". If I would translate the french title I would end up with something like "Harry Potter at the school of wizards" however if you use Google Translate and translate the french text to English you get : Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone So is there anything in the french text that actually translates to "stone".. is it some kind of wordplay or expression I do not get or is Google Translate just giving the answer based what someone have put in there? 1 person has voted this message useful
Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6392 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German	Message 2 of 3 06 February 2012 at 1:58pm \| IP Logged
	Yeah, it's Google Translate being really clever and translating the French title into the English one. There's nothing about a stone in the French title. 2 persons have voted this message useful
Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5130 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English	Message 3 of 3 06 February 2012 at 2:40pm \| IP Logged
	What you saw was statistical machine translation in action. Google trains its translation tool with lots of bilingual texts. Therefore it "knows" that "Harry Potter à L'École des Sorciers" is the French translation of the English book title "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". 3 persons have voted this message useful

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