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Mark
Mark
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Italian to English
Different dialects? Mar 11, 2013

Hmm. The definition of dialects is always contentious, but isn’t even the idea of a uniform "American English" somewhat problematic?
 
Kay Denney
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France
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French to English
Pollokshaws Mar 11, 2013

The name of the district in question could have given rise to something much more likely to raise a laugh surely!
 
neilmac
neilmac
Spain
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Spanish to English
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Says it all, really Mar 12, 2013

Er... "machine-generated text "... I rest my case, m'lud.

I already have enough trouble myself getting Dragon to recognise my Scots vowels and confusing things like "found/phoned" and "or/are"...

[Edited at 2013-03-12 10:18 GMT]
 
Fiona Gonçalves
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Portugal
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Which just reminded me of... Mar 14, 2013

...this wonderful youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ
 
Ambrose Li
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Canada
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Not news Mar 17, 2013

Their automatic English subtitles are often very wrong. Of course it can’t get Scots…
 
Rachel Fell
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United Kingdom
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French to English
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Pity... Mar 17, 2013

Fiona Gonçalves wrote:

...this wonderful youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ

...not viewable in England (Scotland too?)
 


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