And gives really rubbish translations,\n\nAnd it usually isn't in the language that the asker wants.\n\n\nDon't people realise that a human translation is 1000 x better than a computer translation?
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You are right, any computer translating anything will just make a mess of it and it can quite often lead to confusion or even end up giving you the opposite meaning! I studied a degree in translation for 4 years, and it is frustrating that some people think that a job that would take a few hours for a professional to translate, can be done as good in seconds by a computer. Translations ARE necessary (unlike someone else has said) and I am sure you can find people that can speak pretty much every language in this web page. But you can't take advantage of that and ask them to translate a very long text, that's taking the mickey, if that's what you want, then you'll have to pay someone to get a proper translation. But if you just want a few sentences translated, just ask here and I'm sure more than one person will be happy to help.
34502
I couldn't get my computer to read it. But you can go to babelfish anytime you need translation. I use it a lot!
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Sorry, I disagre with you.\n\nThe "Living Bible" is the most horrible translation I've ever seen.\n\nWhen I compared 8 texts I quickly threw the "Living Bible" out of the equation as just bring too off from the rest of the texts I was reading.\n\nAlso, have you studied Ancient Greek and Anceint Hebrew and looked at the scroll and Codex yourself!\n\nDo you AGREE with all the translators!\n\nIf the Quran shows us anything, it shows us how three different translators can't agree on the ancient texts!\n\nThey sometimes come close, but they don't fully agree with all the phrasings.\n\nI'd say the Judeo-Christain Bible can easily fall into the same conflicts!\n\nI came up with a ficitious Diary entry of a Girl in the late 1960s or early 1970s.\n\n"We went to the Dead show at Winterland and had a bitchen time!"\n\nNow, you translate that!\n\nLet's see just how well you know your 1970's trivia!\n\nTELL ME exactly What she said and meant.  DEFINE every word and phrase.\n\nI know the answers, but only Dead-Heads can translate that.\n\nNow, what do you do in 500 years!\n\nThe same exact thing applies to the Bible and Quran!\n\nYou sort of have to be there to know what was REALLY meant!
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Wow!!!  I'm amazing?? Thankyou :-)))\n\n\nI do not think I'm amazing!  And I only really speak two languages..not even that!!\n\nIf you look at my answers in the other languages..you will see that there are at a very basic level...\nI don't use a translator because I don't think they work..but I do use a dictionary :-))
200636
Why can't you people just speak english instead of that stupid computer thug crap........you would make a lot more sense
195443
I think you just answered your own question but here are some other ideas I've had:\n\n1) Many folks here do not speak English well, and probably read it even more poorly. Imagine if you were translating your own question into Greek... would you be able to spell every word correctly? Would spell check really help you?\n\n2) Lots of people on this site are in too big a hurry to get points to be bothered with things like syntax or grammar or spelling, or fixing their typos.\n\n3) People in general are quite stupid and under-educated, which is probably why the good folks at Yahoo developed this site.
549296
I think there must have been an error there.\nI read somewhere in Yahoo! Answers homepage, that they are experiencing some fault and some people are been sent warnings incorrectly. And they apologise if anyone has received this.
233365
Good answer, Drof. This Asker seems Clueless. Could be the language barrier raising its ugly head again.
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Hmmm, IS there any good questions? or do you mean ARE there any good questions? aaaaah caught your error there *lol*\n\nMost of the questions are in English-ish, but too many people are lazy and don't like correcting their spelling or grammar... or they just think that shorthand is cool.
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Oh, man, that crap drives me up the wall.  I have no idea what the name of the language is, though, i just know that we call the people who use it all the time n00bs.  But that in and of itself is somewhat netspeak-y, so, eh.  What are you gonna do?
630821
A lot of people think that English is the only acceptable language of the US.  So when people translate it, they get angry.  Some people are just really ignorant.
640256
I find it frustrating to understand people sometimes.  I wish they would use less shortcuts like b4 and actually spell out the word.\n\nAlso people wHo TyPe LiKe ThIs should be removed immediately!!!
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Its one of those scenarios where they obviously do not understand the terminology used on the net. Unfortunately not everyone has been around long enough to remember what was used last year even let alone 6 or 7 years back.\n\nDont worry about it. Seems to me they are just a bt sensitive and did not understand what you were actually saying.\n\nBtw, for those who dont know, check the link.
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While all the translation websites mentioned here are good, translation websites generally are not that great.  In every language, there are words that have different connotations and translation software just can't pick out the exact word that you want.  However, these websites are incredibly funny--for example, I typed the first sentence of my answer into Google's translate tool, translated into French, then German, then back to English, and this is what I got: "While all locations mentioned here are good Web translation, the locations Web translation are not generally large those." And that makes me giggle :) . \n\nYou're much better off with a dictionary if you just want to look up words.  If you actually need to translate sentences, you should definitely find someone who speaks the language, like a friend or a professional translator.
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I've found wordreference.com to be the best translating site out there, at least for French and English.  I'm sure there are some errors and inaccuracies, but I've never seen one.
23128
Very interesting question, my dear. There is a vast multitude of people who have little or no regard for the language arts including English as it is written and meant to be read. Nor do they wish to improve!
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I have ran into some of these KJ only folks before. They are arrogant in their belief that they are superior to others who do not believe as they do. The Bible says knowledge puffs up but love edifies. They believe that all English versions are corrupt except for the KJ version. First of any English version is not technically as accurate as the original Bible languages, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Secondly, they fail to realize the even the KJ has been thur several updates itself- just open a KJ up and look at the copyright page that will state various years of editions copyrighted. If some one is going to be so hard-lined that they will not tolerate others who have different view then themselves-best to save your breath and time and let god deal with them.