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Hi Socnetters,
I have followed this discussion with interest, because I am a member of the
American Translators Association. It is particularly upsetting for
ATA-certified translators to come across mumbo-jumbo "machine translations"
in otherwise high-quality publications. Case in point:
The proposed translation of INSNA for Portuguese (Latin America):
"Internacional Rede for Social Rede Análise" is clearly not the work of a
human being.
The correct translation: Rede Internacional para Análise de Redes Sociais.

In the Spanish "translations", "Baile" and "Tertulia" sound very amusing;
perhaps the idea of social networks has something to do with dancing.



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Assunto: Re: please help with translation of INSNA to other languages


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I've received several more suggested translations of INSNA. Please help
me get them right this time. I'm throwing this out to about thirteen
hundred people, and I sincerely hope that you will find a version in
your language here and either let me know that I have a correct version
or send the one I should be using instead. Most languages have more than
one translation. I strongly suspect that many of the ones I have are not
correct; translated back into English they will result in something like
"Between nation-states entanglement in case of human-socialistic
entwinement dissociation".

Thanks for your help with this!

They are on the web at www.sfu.ca/~insna/languages.txt

Please let me know which language you are writing about and which of the
versions I listed is/are correct and what the correct version should be
if none of mine are correct.

Thank you

Bill Richards <[log in to unmask]>

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