Suprabhat
Newbie
- Aug 25, 2016
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Any articles you create or translate using Google Translate will sound odd to anyone who speaks English, even if they'e grammatically correct.
Take this Russian phrase by Zinaida Gippius I used in Google Translate as an example:
The English translation should read, "If you need to explain, then it is not necessary to explain", but that's not the only issue here. That sentence will sound oracular to most English speakers, so unless you're writing an article that provides words of wisdom, the tone may not fit the rest of the article.
You'll also have an issue with spelling. You see, if you translate a word that happens to have a spelling variant, you'll need to know which variant to use. An example of this would be colour vs colour. So if you're writing an article for a US audience, you'll need to use "color", but if your audience is from the UK, you'll need to use "colour". If you use the wrong one, your audience will assume you're misspelling the word.
Exactly same happens for me, My native language is Hindi and when I translate any English phrase into hindi. Most of the time meaning of the whole phrase changes. So google translator might not work for translation.