Message from @DuShaun Manndik
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Trying to communicate with people through a language barrier without time for either to learn the other's language
Needing to include another language in a piece of writing (movie script, novel, etc)
Wanting to sound coherent enough to trick people you don't want to talk to into thinking you don't speak English
There are plenty of points
Well, for the first point, I just don't talk to people at all
For the third point, see my rebuttal to the first point
For the second point, I am a writer, and I've tried using translate to have characters speak in a different language
Shit don't work
Google translate is flaming ass
Re 1,3: I mean, same
But other people do
I just had to cop out and write '"[insert the line]," [insert the character] said in [insert the language].'
There was no other way around it that I could conceive. It had to be that exact language, but I don't speak that language, and neither does google translate
Not well enough to be reliable, anyway
Fair
I think it works better on some languages than others
That said, the most effective way to translate is usually to hire a native speaker
Well, nobody *natively* speaks Esperanto
you could make up your own language
just tolkien it
esperanto? sounds fake
I suppose I could submit the lines to what's his name, Captain Kirk, and ask him to translate
It is fake
It was made up in 1886 or something like that
It was intended to be a universal language
Obviously that panned out.
i think the best way to use google translate is to use it all the time and get 60%, then not using it all the time and failing the french exam
j'habite dans un pomme du terre sur la mere
j'accuse le sacre bleu
Is it only me or is 1984 Harrison Ford hella ripped?
omlet du fromage
what is the French version of "Am I kawaii? uguu~~"
Pardon, je ne parlez français
french? sounds fake
Realistically that's the only thing you need to know in any language
well uguu is a made up noise so the equivalent of uguu in any language is still uguu
Heil, ich nicht sprichen deutsch
Howdy, I'don' speak 'Murican
uhhh i disagree
It's "ich spreche kein Deutsch" or "ich spreche Deutsch nicht"
cockadoodledo
I actually do spreche Deutsch so yeah GOML scrub and stop appropriating my culture
this is not a noise btw, its an instruction to doodle a penis
cock a doodle, do!