Search results for 'tag:Translation tag:Grammar' matching tags 'Translation' and 'Grammar'

Re: Another article problem

Ant_222 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:26:01 GMT

Thanks, Clive. So, omitting the article would be still grammatical, but, maybe, with a bit different meaning?

Clive
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So you know what book I am reading.?. It's way better than the News anyway!

Re: Are there any mistakes?

Anonymous — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:57:25 GMT

Thank you very much for your suggestion 26TMNTJG2PG.

This is a translation from another language so I want the meaning to stay same.The sentence basically should say our employees are conscious of "Responsibility for Quality" and respectful to the environment and these are the most important characteristics of our quality policy ( these features constitute our quality policy) something like that. But I can not make a full sentence with them, the sentences I made don't correspond to what I am trying to say. I think I am using either wrong words or wrong grammar structures.

Re: I am trying to translate short story from my Native laguage into English. Can you help me to check the Grammar&Puncutation. I have given thre paragraph. Thanks for your help.

nona the brit — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:10:46 GMT

Hello Canada 1966, welcome to the forum.

I've got a feeling that you ran your own language through one of the translation softwares such as Babelfish as this reads very much like the sort of thing they come up with - translating single words without really being able to consider the overall meaning. It's very odd and almost impossible to understand what you are saying here. Your own English, in your request, is much better. Actually, I wonder if you did write the third paragraph yourself as the style is much much better and it is understandable

This is a story of a girl who came to this city today. Valliammal was waiting with her daughter Pappathi in the corridor of the Government hospitalâs O.P department. Pappathi had developed a fever the day before. Valliammal took her to the Primary Health center; the doctor scared them by saying âShe should be taken to City Hospital immediatelyâ. Valliammal took the first bus in the morning.

Why don't you try the first two paragraphs again yourself as I think you'll get a better result? They are so distorted that I can't make any suggestions.

Re: Grammar Suggestion

Goodman — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:59:13 GMT

Hi Cute,
I know this may not be an appropriate question but I need to ask as I am curious to the phrase "writing desk" and "evening rays".

Are you Chinese? I asked this because I know only Cantonese will use "writing desk" as a direct translation. No offense!.

asleep and sleeping

Moonwalker — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:46:07 GMT

To me those two words are very similar and the translation is the same.

The doorbell rang while we were asleep. <- In this sentence, the Grammar in Use says 'as' is not appropriate but 'while' is fine.

How about this one?

As the doorbell rang, we were sleeping.

Does 'asleep' represent a status and 'sleep' is an action? Can anyone explain the difference?

Re: Google translation

Kooyeen — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:37:12 GMT

CalifJim
The student looked up "fly" and found "mosca" in the dictionary. Not realizing it was the insect "fly", he then constructed a sentence in Spanish intending to say that on his next vacation he was going to "fly" to Madrid. If you know Spanish, it may be funnier, because he actually attached the correct verbal ending on the noun! Voy a moscar a Madrid.

LOL, that's what happens when you don't have the slightest idea how to express a certain concept in another language. Dictionary, direct translation... total nonsense. That's why I believe every learner should use a monolingual dictionary "for learners", where everything is explained simply and there are plenty of examples to learn from. That way you are much less likely to use a simple verb or word the wrong way, because the most common usage patterns are highlighted.
Direct translation is what most automatic translators do, so as long as there are no machines with artificial intelligence that are able to learn a language like a human, automatic translations will always be of bad quality. I tried translating that text with Google... In Italian, you would understand the general meaning, what they are talking about, but some expressions are almost meaningless. Not too bad anyway, I thought it would come out worse, LOL. And "Employs" was translated as "gives work to" in Italian too...

EDIT: Ok, I'm going to post the translation, in case "some Italians" come across this thread.
L'autore, N. Taiwo, dÃ lavoro a un approccio molto singolare che svela le cause alla radice (fattori) che producono o erodere il rispetto tra le persone. Il risultato Ã¨ un potente rivelazione che offre una profonda esaminare comportamento umano e processi di pensiero che rimodellare il lettore sta pensando.
Il concetto di rispetto Ã¨ presentato in una nuova luce e prospettiva, e una forte caso Ã¨ fatto sul ruolo rispetto svolge nella definizione e promozione di successo nella vita. Genitori, giovani, adulti e giovani professionisti stand trarre enormi benefici da questo innovativo e intrigante all'autoresponsabilizzazione libro sul rispetto.

The underlined parts are where there is something wrong (either the term, or the grammar, or something missing).

translation of song INTO English (check my work, please)

marcopolon2 — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:45:50 GMT

Hello! CHECK SOMEONE MY TRANSLATION OF LYRICS INTO ENGLISH, PLEASE! My friend is a member of music band. He gave my his lyrics (they are short texts) and asked me to translate them into English. But I'm not good enough in English to translate lyrics - I lack knowledge about phraseal verbs, slang and grammar constructions. Please, write me private message or e-mail on my address (Place email address in Profile, please -- MM) so that I can send you my translations and you'll check them and correct them. Thank you very, very much in advance!

Re: fix

Taka — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:09:10 GMT

Grammar Geek
Then I completely agree with you.

Good!

Grammar Geek
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Â I would NOT use the "to memorize" as a translation for "get it fixed" in the example you first gave.

But the 'fix in your mind' in the second and third examples I gave could be replaced with 'remember' or 'memorize.' You won't disagree on this one, right?

The order of "don't" in a specific sentence

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:50:03 GMT

Helloo folks!

I am a teacher of English in Spain. I would appreciate a lot if you could tell why sentence 1) below seems to be more correct than sentence 2).

1) But I don't suppose you remember and old woman like me?

2) But I suppose you don't remember and old woman like me?

In Spanish we say the translation of sentence 2), but in a book I found 1), and according to a search on google 1) seems to be more common too.

Could you give me a grammar explanation for that?

Thanks a million.

Love everyone.

Re: market

Newguest — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:02:42 GMT

Grammar Geek

Do you mean get a job doing translations? Try "break into the market."

Right, this is what I meant.

I think I can also write: Nowadays, it's difficult for a beginner to get into the translation market.

thank you GG!