ohsarah Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Could you please proof read this short paragraph for me? Thanks =)Quand Mr xxx a pensé de créer sa société il vivait dans un motel et il il n'a eu aucun espoir. Sa société ne faisaient pas bien. Cinq ans après être parti de la maison, il n'a eu rien. Mais la chance des Mr xxx changée et maintenant il est l'une des personnes les plus réussies d'affaires sur la planète. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Well, it should be "s'il vous plaît" for a kick off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 I would do it if this didn't read like a google/Babelfish translation, without the slightest effort on the OP's part.... [8-)]Count me out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicandJo Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 I reckons that be a 'bot posting........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 how does that work?what does it achieve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 [quote user="Clair"]how does that work?what does it achieve?[/quote]You've got me!Although I'm normally more than happy to help, for a first-time poster to just ask to have their work spoon fed for them, just p*sses me off, whatever their motives. Hence, I was in no way going to help with the translation, especially when they hadn't even bothered to look up "please" for the thread title.[:@] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicandJo Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 No idea. And no idea!From a different forum I am a member of we had some trouble with this stuff - completely random. I think once the bot's master program gets into a forum, past any measures meant to stop them, then you might see some of the less desirable porn ad posts and stuff......The other forum I go to (not France related) had to set up a double log in to stop them - once you enter your log in details you go to another log in request instead of accessing forum. If you login successfully twice it let's you in. The bot's attempt a log in once, if it fails they move on.Ric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 [quote user="ohsarah"]Could you please proof read this short paragraph for me? Thanks =)Quand Mr xxx a pensé de créer sa société il vivait dans un motel et il il n'a eu aucun espoir. Sa société ne faisaient pas bien. Cinq ans après être parti de la maison, il n'a eu rien. Mais la chance des Mr xxx changée et maintenant il est l'une des personnes les plus réussies d'affaires sur la planète.[/quote]Yes I could.John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Hmm, we had something in a very similar style to this posted a couple of weeks ago, about a well known menswear store. I edited out some of the keywords then, and have done the same here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rose Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 [quote user="Iceni"][quote user="ohsarah"]Could you please proof read this short paragraph for me? Thanks =)Quand Mr xxx a pensé de créer sa société il vivait dans un motel et il il n'a eu aucun espoir. Sa société ne faisaient pas bien. Cinq ans après être parti de la maison, il n'a eu rien. Mais la chance des Mr xxx changée et maintenant il est l'une des personnes les plus réussies d'affaires sur la planète.[/quote]Yes I could.John[/quote]me too... anything to help me learn the different French tenses! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted April 14, 2008 Share Posted April 14, 2008 Either from Corsica or Ilfracombe. Past tense isn't it. [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohsarah Posted April 14, 2008 Author Share Posted April 14, 2008 Fine, fine. When I posted that it was like 2AM and I'd forgotten about a French exam the next day. Can't actually say that I blame you for not helping, [:)]. Have fun bitching about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 [quote user="ohsarah"] Have fun bitching about this.[/quote]Oh, we do, have no fear![:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 So 23.10 is "like 2 am"I am always confused and aggravated by the unnecessary and incorrect modern use of "like"But (like) it continues (like)[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 I'm also confused by "like". I have a penchant for, OK, and perhaps, it is similar to, but as in "I am like really upset by all this like criticism"......then, no! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 It was especially upsetting for me when I backpacked around the world (2004) to find that it was (like) even worse in South Africa and New Zealand.What was truly sad was how many foreigners I met that spoke otherwise very good English that had copied the habit, as it was my bête noir I would often tease them after they would say something like (by the way that "like" is acceptable!) "he had like two bags with him" by asking "so how many bags did actually he have then?"The worst culprit was a beautiful Finnish girl that I travelled with from the Bolivian border through Chile who was making her way to (like) Santiago to (like) teach English (like) to (like) Chilean students (like).Oh and the then boyfriend of my South African second cousin who would preface each sentence with "like" only he had a dreadfull stammer so it was more a case of "like like like like like.............................."I wonder what bad habits and mannerisms I have picked up from the local speech, I have only been corrected for using "par compte" instead of "en revanche" but I am sure there are many others, I contract a lot of phrases like "shuis pas" for "je ne suis pas" and "shais pas" for "je ne sais pas" etc but dont know if that is actually bad speech or local Picard patois as most around here seem to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicandJo Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Yeah but no but yeah but no but................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chancer Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Oui mais oui mais oui .................................. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 At least the OP was honest. What she should have done was made out she was taking night school French lessons because she was moving to France and that was her homework attempt, then everybody would have flocked to correct what she had written.[6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 [quote user="Ron Avery"]At least the OP was honest. What she should have done was made out she was taking night school French lessons because she was moving to France and that was her homework attempt, then everybody would have flocked to correct what she had written.[6][/quote]Point.[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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