(Hopefully) To a member of the google translate team, I won't lie, I have no idea if you guys read this, and if you don't then I would like apologize to all those members of the Google translate group for misusing this group.
I would like to say before I start on this whole suggesting thing that I have found google translate immensely helpful in my study of Mandarin, and I am more than certain that it will continue to be such for many years to come - the application, both on the web, and on iOS devices, is incredibly fast, functional, and (generally) correct within a reasonable margin of error/mistranslation. However, I feel as if there could be a small change made that would make using this service even better; a clearer indication of exactly what the translated word means in the translated language. I know that you already do something similar to this, as you show alternate words that could be used instead of the one suggested, but these words are writen in the langauge that the user is already translating into. So if an English word has a double meaning, and the translated word is not the one that the user intends, they are possibly unaware of this mistranslation. If Google Translate offered either a definition, or a list of alternate words, of the translated word in the langauge that the user starts with (for example, English, should the user be translating an English word into French), then mistranslations like these could be dealt with. I apologize for any confusion that arises from this rather unclear message (I am on holiday and have therefore not had to have writen anything in an embarrassingly long time, not a very good environment for my already wilting skills of communication) but I hope you are able to glean from it the gist of my suggestion. Once again, thank you all for the wonderful work you have already done on Google Translate, and I hope that this message will go a tiny way toward making it better (as I am sure you all have far better plans that I do as to how to make this service better) Many thanks, Smelliness -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
