Comments on: Wag your tale http://www.dunglish.nl/2010/01/11/wag-your-tale/ Where Dutch and English collide Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:30:43 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dick http://www.dunglish.nl/2010/01/11/wag-your-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-14551 Dick Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:26:55 +0000 http://www.dunglish.nl/?p=501#comment-14551 I just can't believe any electronic translation machine would come up with the non-existing word "registrion". This to me looks more like the work of a sloppy typist. I just can’t believe any electronic translation machine would come up with the non-existing word “registrion”. This to me looks more like the work of a sloppy typist.

]]> By: Larry http://www.dunglish.nl/2010/01/11/wag-your-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-14509 Larry Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:20:08 +0000 http://www.dunglish.nl/?p=501#comment-14509 This from a city whose university draws English-speaking (or at least non-Dutch-speaking) students from all over! Appalling. I've sent them an e-mail (something I don't usually do anymore, because fighting the cheapskate 'but I learned English at school' mentality is largely futile). This from a city whose university draws English-speaking (or at least non-Dutch-speaking) students from all over!

Appalling. I’ve sent them an e-mail (something I don’t usually do anymore, because fighting the cheapskate ‘but I learned English at school’ mentality is largely futile).

]]> By: Marie-Claude http://www.dunglish.nl/2010/01/11/wag-your-tale/comment-page-1/#comment-14506 Marie-Claude Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:45:16 +0000 http://www.dunglish.nl/?p=501#comment-14506 If you back-translate using Google Translate, you get more or less an intelligible and sometimes quite gramatically correct Dutch. So they must have used machine translation and have the result edited by someone who had no clue about correct English language (manicipality? what about womanicipality? LOL) If you back-translate using Google Translate, you get more or less an intelligible and sometimes quite gramatically correct Dutch. So they must have used machine translation and have the result edited by someone who had no clue about correct English language (manicipality? what about womanicipality? LOL)

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