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Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby leosmith » Fri Jun 30, 2017 7:46 pm

Dear google translate,
The frikken answer is not "the"!
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Postby lavengro » Fri Jun 30, 2017 9:15 pm

Dear Google Translate,

An important part of Skynet, humanity operation to increase the scope of their teams?

Yours fearfully,
Lavengro

* A GT translation, from English to Bulgarian, then to Finnish, to Hungarian, to Spanish, to Russian and louping leisurely back to English, of the following original question: "Dear Google Translate, are you an important component of Skynet, working on a mission to increase mankind's reliance on computers?"
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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby tommus » Fri Jun 30, 2017 10:02 pm

Hello Google Translate,

Despite some rather shaky translations (and some funny ones) from time to time, you are an invaluable asset to my language learning.

Thank you very much!
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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby AndyMeg » Fri Jun 30, 2017 10:49 pm

Dear Google Translate,

Why do you keep changing my original texts?

I want your help to double check some words and their spelling, and to verify some translations; but if you change the text in the source language, how can I trust you?
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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby leosmith » Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:27 pm

Dear google translate,
The frikken answer is not "you"!
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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby zenmonkey » Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:51 pm

Dear Google,

Please learn to be less formal in French. And German.

Merci a toi,
moi.
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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby zenmonkey » Tue Jul 04, 2017 7:53 pm

Dear google translate,

And PS... thank you for this.



laughlingly,
moi again
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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby WalkingAlone13 » Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:06 pm

Dear Google translate,

Thank you for showing us that being imperfect is often only a short step away from perfection.

Without you I would not have such joyous Youtube channels such as Malinda Kathleen Reece to give me a good laugh in times of woe.

Yours sincerely,
Walkingalone13


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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby Iversen » Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:37 pm

Dear Google Translate: please take a week off and read this
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Re: Post your open letter to google translate here...

Postby zenmonkey » Tue Jul 04, 2017 10:44 pm

Dear Google,

I fell into the Internet, I did.



Chicken Skin!

Yours,
Freddie, turning in a circular motion in the burial hole.
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