Need Help with Language Translation

Do not touch: NO TOCAR

(Spanish)

Note: in Spanish if you want to put an exclamation point for emphasis after the phrase, you also put an upside-down exclamation point before the phrase. I could have typed that above, but special characters are not always displayed correctly on different computers.

Spanish is the only foreign language I know. If you wish to amplify the phrase, let me know what you want to say and I'll translate it. I'll leave it to you whether you want to say more than simply Do not touch.

 

Here's French: Ne touchez pas

 

I have found the babelfish website very useful for translations. It will translate to/from a plethora of languages, including Chinese, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Korean, Japanese, etc.

 

Don't Touch, in hebrew

 

I was so excited that I thought I could help someone, I must have missed that part.

 

Yeah, but that makes for a longer sentence, because it would have to be

"Touch this, you die"

 

Yeah. Babelfish is pretty cool, but only if you're translating a couple words. If you're doing any significant text, it tends to mangle it pretty badly. Just try translating a passage from English to another language, and then back to English. If you run the passage back and forth through through the translator a few times, it gets fairly mangled.

 

Yes, I've run into that problem, as well. But I thought since it was a short phrase, it might be a good source. Unfortunately, I missed the part where he said he already knew about it! :blink:

 

Oday Otnay Ouchtay

pig latin.

(hey, you mentioned it)

well, ONE version of pig latin. i know there are many.

 

Or if you had a Mac, you'd have it built in on the Dashboard Windows users don't know how rough they have it

Chinese (simplified Han): 不要接触
Chinese (traditional Han): 不要接觸
Dutch: Raak niet
French: Ne touchez pas
German: Berühren Sie sich nicht
Greek: Μην αγγίξτε
Italian: Non tocchi
Japanese: 触れてはいけない
Korean: 만지지 말라
Portuguese: Não toque
Russian: Не коснитесь
Spanish: No toque
English: You touch, you DIE!
B)

 

When I was living in Mexico a friend back home wrote me a letter in English, then ran it through one of the on-line translators, and sent me the Spanish. Most of the letter made no sense at all. Some of the phrases were downright comical. As an example, he made mention of the board of directors of a local organization. It tranlated "board" as if it was a plank of lumber. And the whole letter was filled with that sort of stuff. Neither the "board" nor the "directors" in "board of directors" is translated in the phrase as it would be translated on its own. But the translating programs are too idiotically stupid to know that.

They are fun only if you are completely ignorant of the target language. Then you can believe you've made a translation. In fact, all you've done is created meaningless gibberish which a speaker of the target language will not understand in the slightest.

 

WHOA, how is that possible that Mystery Squid didn't respond to this post?
He must have overlooked it, because it's absolutely impossible that this "man" with such a vast amount of knowledge, world traveller and I am sure a polygot would come up with at least 23 versions of this phrase.

 

oooooh, you're a bitter little man today eh? Couple of anti-squids posts there eh?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Pssst. USE the ignore function.