https://www.montereylanguages.com/blog/meaningful-translation-vs-literal-translation-2016 Translation reaches every corner of our culture. Our blog shares stories related to translation, culture, language, quality, writing & interpretation through the eyes of translation professionals. Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:25:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.35 https://www.montereylanguages.com/blog/meaningful-translation-vs-literal-translation-2016/comment-page-1#comment-17279 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:41:56 +0000 http://www.montereylanguages.com/blog/?p=2016#comment-17279 Speaking of literal translations, I don’t know if anyone’s heard the story (possibly true, possibly not) of the first time that they attempted natural word processing. They took the phrase “the spirit is strong but the flesh is weak” and translated it word-to-word into Russian. When they back-translated it, they got “the vodka is strong but the meat is rotten”.

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