Talk:Literal translation

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Contents 1 Newbie translators? 2 All your base 3 Kindergarten 4 A number of topics

[edit] Newbie translators?

The article mentions "newbie translators" (without a link). Perhaps there's a more stylish/correct way? I'll add a link for now.

[edit] All your base

Just a thought, perhaps this page could use a link to All your base are belong to us? It is one of the more well known mistranslations, most likely stemming from a machine translation.

[edit] Kindergarten

"Kindergarten" is not a very good illustration to choose, because even in German a Kindergarten is very seldom literally a children's garden. Also, the "English" definition given here is US-centric. -- Picapica 19:33, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A number of topics

It seems that this article covers a number of topics: literal translation, language interference, back translation (sometimes applied to MT), morphemic glossing, etc. The article really needs to be systematized and have the different (related) concepts addressed in it put in some sort of framework. Right now this is about 10% encyclopedia, 90% amusing (and perhaps instructive) anecdotes.

-Fenevad 13:16, 13 November 2007 (UTC)