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Brief Review

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My students created this page for a course (HG2052: Language, Technology and the Internet) and I am adding a couple of comments as the final review. Francis Bond (talk) 15:07, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • in general I think it is an interesting page about a small but notable topic
  • some places it could be improved
    • the lede is a trifle long
    • the references should have duplicates merged
    • the page has many examples but not much encyclopediac work on the subject
  • I took out the section on Mediums and modes of translation and Causes of translation error as not really irrelevant

Surely this one deserves to be mentioned?

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"Watching an old QI last night, and one of the contributors came up with a great illustration of the pitfalls of translation. Apparently Rabbie Burns’s “Address to a Haggis” – the one that begins:

“Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o the puddin’-race!”

…had been translated into German, and then back again, by which time the second line had become:

“Mighty Führer of the sausage people!”"

https://goodlondoncopywriter.co.uk/tag/mighty-fuhrer-of-the-sausage-people/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.212.129.70 (talk) 23:57, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Coca-Cola error

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The link to Brand blunder actually says that the story about unsuitable Chinese translations of Coca-Cola in fact is an urban myth. Maybe the entire paragraph could then be removed as irrelevant? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.208.192.24 (talk) 13:44, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]