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capricious



Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:32 pm    Post subject: one-sentence translation Reply with quote

Hi all, I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could translate the following sentence into Italian, Spanish and French.

"Turkish Airlines is proud to be the fastest growing company in Europe"
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laura1d



Joined: 13 Jan 2005
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Location: Spain

PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:05 pm    Post subject: babelfish Reply with quote

Why don't you just use the babelfish translation site. It seems good.
Laura
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capricious



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Laura, a great site and a great help! Thanks ever so much!
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wildchild



Joined: 14 Nov 2005
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Location: Puebla 2009 - 2010

PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

try translating "go jump in a lake" (or any other idiom) using babelfish. Laughing
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MikeySaid



Joined: 10 Nov 2004
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Location: Torreon, Mexico

PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:13 pm    Post subject: Re: babelfish Reply with quote

laura1d wrote:
Why don't you just use the babelfish translation site. It seems good.
Laura


Joking, right?

God I hope so.
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Justin Trullinger



Joined: 28 Jan 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I sometimes use the babelfish site- like most computer translation programs, it can be a useful tool, if you know how to use it.

Everybody has a good story about somebody using it, then publishing or turning in the results, which doesn't work.

But if you read and write both your source language and your target language, you can use babelfish then edit the results into real language... I do this frequently with office documents, and figure than editing a babelfish translation only takes about 60% of the time that I would spend translating it myself.

But it's important that you can read the final product, to make sure it makes sense, and read the source document to make sure that the same sense is being made.

Pardon me for not translating the initial phrase, though. It sounds like an advertising slogan, and whoever translates it really should get paid.

Best,
Justin
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naturegirl321



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

you could also try freetranslation.com
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dmb



Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 7:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
"Turkish Airlines is proud to be the fastest growing company in Europe"
Is THY really the fastest growing company in Europe. It surprises me 'cos they are crap- at least the flights between Istanbul and the UK are.
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Stephen Jones



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Air Arabia is absolute crap and it's the fastest growing airline in the Middle East.
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