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    September 14, 2010
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    Another error spotted by me.

    while attempting to find people who live in Croatia I came across mistranslation of its Polish version.

    it is:

    Croatia -> Kroacja

    it should be:

    Croatia -> Chorwacja

    there's no such a word like "Kroacja" in Polish:/ who translated that!?
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    February 25, 2009
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  • Answered
    adjectives modify nouns, adverbs modify verbs. we cannot say that adjectives follow verbs. adjectives preceed nouns.
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    February 4, 2009
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    Actually it should all be written in English, sorry. Well I came across one terrible mistranslation here on italki. It deals with Polish-English and English-Polish translation of "Dutch" and "Danish". If I want to find a person who speaks Dutch, I have to choose Danish from the menu.

    Dutch  means "holenderski" in Polish
    and 
    Danish means "duński" in Polish
    I think it's the other way round here (it shouldn't be like that).
    It's a serious mistake I think.
    I wrote about it, though still the same problem occurs...
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    January 12, 2009
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  • Posted
    Mistranslation / złe tłumaczenie Czy ktoś z polskich użytkowników poza mną zauważył poważny błąd w tłumaczeniu? Otóż aby wyszukać użytkowników mówiących w języku holenderskim, należy z  menu wybrać .... duński.... i odwrotnie.

    Dutch - z angielskiego oznacza holenderski
    Danish - duński

    to dość poważny błąd:/
    January 12, 2009
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  • Answered
    pojechać do Polski ;)
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    December 16, 2008
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    From my teaching experience, I can see that you either used a dictionary (and overused it actually) or a translating software (overused it as well). You have to remember that there are words that have the same spelling but different meaning depending on the context. Another thing is that there so called pleonastic expressions (one that share no meaning and has only a grammatical function assigned). well -> 1. studnia (a deep hole in the ground from which water, oil or gas can be obtained), 2. dobrze (ADVERB) - from good, 3. exclamation used to introduce something you are going to say (you can omit it) going to - cannot be translated literally!!!
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    November 30, 2008
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