Better than Google Translate?
mainMore howlers here.
There is no room for Sir Simon Rattle…
The Vienna Philharmonic has just awarded honorary membership…
Ignore the annual furore about pop insertions at…
The summers season, rolled out today, shows welcome…
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Almost as good as the following schoolboy howler:
“Martin Luther nailed his 95 faeces to the door of his church.”
And no, I haven’t made that one up.
With all the attempts at translation into English in a country of 1.3bn people it would not be surprising if you found a few which were really silly, BUT the photo above is clearly from a German-speaking country and is therefore equally clearly a hoax. In fact, just like
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=257
I would not underestimate the power of Google Translate. It’s free and does a great job with simple texts. And if you need to translate documents or a medical certificate from english to latin then of course it is better to prefer professional translation from experts. So you will be sure that there are no mistakes.