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Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
You don't need 30 translations. 3 will do
Years ago I used to sell metal tubing.

Seamless tubes ( i.e. made without welding) - via a couple of languages, one was French, I forget the other, comes back to English as "Tubes without knitting".

Out of interest what were the three? My job into sell internationally and we've been thinking of getting some proper translations done.
 

PpPete

Legendary Member
Location
Chandler's Ford
Out of interest what were the three? My job into sell internationally and we've been thinking of getting some proper translations done.

English, French and one other... it was long time ago, so can't be sure, but it may have been Portuguese.

I've done a fair bit of English/French translation in my time, much of the so-called "professional" stuff is little better than Google Translate. To get a proper job done you need a native speaker of the language you are translating to, and who is also an expert in the subject matter.
I used be perfectly fluent in French, could pass myself of as a Frenchman in conversation .... but was still not good enough to produce a really satisfactory translation from English to French.
 

TheDoctor

Noble and true, with a heart of steel
Moderator
Location
The TerrorVortex
Out of interest what were the three? My job into sell internationally and we've been thinking of getting some proper translations done.

Contact a professional translator. An agency will have someone who's fluent in the language you're going from, native in the language you're going to, and worked in the appropriate field.
Google Translate really isn't up to the task.
Try running some text from a foreign website through GT, then try and decipher the results.
Then ask yourself if you'd buy the product if they used that as their sales pitch...
 

Alembicbassman

Confused.com
Looks like Old Nessebar or Sozopol.

Tino Sana makes something similar

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Gary E

Veteran
Location
Hampshire
Now we're getting somewhere, beautiful wheels! But for pete's sake what's happening with the forks/stem/seat post/pedal arms? At least paint them brown! (and as for that front light....lol)

9.75 out of 10 still :thumbsup:
 

Alembicbassman

Confused.com
Got an apartment in Sunny Beach, spent a week in an old house in Old Ness beforethe apartment was completed. Nice and quiet when all the crowds have gone, unlike Sunny Beach ! They have the Eddy Merckx Cycle Club in Nessebar - their van is usually parked up in Sunny Beach.
 
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