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Poll: Do you use Linguee?
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Ventnai
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Spain
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German to English
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I'll look... Feb 29, 2016

I'll look at it if I'm stuck for a term but, more often than not, it's usually Denglish in my main pair of German to English.
 
Mario Chavez (X)
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Local time: 07:58
English to Spanish
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This is what surprised me about Linguee Feb 29, 2016

Many of the translations come from published documents for large companies that supposedly can afford in-house translators or pay large multilanguage translation agencies to do the job for them. The Spanish translations I have encountered are, for the most part, very literal and so poorly written.
 
Georgie Scott
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France
Local time: 13:58
French to English
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Eur-lex inconsistencies Feb 29, 2016

Mario Chavez wrote:

Many of the translations come from published documents for large companies that supposedly can afford in-house translators or pay large multilanguage translation agencies to do the job for them. The Spanish translations I have encountered are, for the most part, very literal and so poorly written.


I always find it interesting when a list of Eur-lex translations come up, each one of them different and of poor quality.
 
Mario Freitas
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Brazil
Local time: 08:58
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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Mr. Literal Mar 2, 2016

Linguee is the king of literal translations. If there is a literal translation, it will be there in the first 30 occurrences. Then, as of the 31st you may find something useful. Therefore, I use Linguee as the last choice, in case of desperation.
 
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