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Transliteration

Transliteration is a word by word translation of a phrase or sentence. It is not the same thing as translation. Translation completely converts from your native syntax to the target syntax.

Languages vary in their syntax. For example, in English the adjective comes before the noun while in Spanish it comes after the noun. So, translating a string of words one at a time in sequence results in a string of words that have been translated one at a time but not translated as a whole.

While it would be desirable to translate, rather than transliterate, sentences, the ability to do that increases the size, weight, complexity, and cost of today's electronic translators by quite a bit. This is why you find sentence translation on only some models.

As a workaround to the sentence conundrum, translator designers have developed phrasebooks. The phrases are key parts of sentences. Using common phrases, you will get an exact translation. It will just not be a complete sentence (in most cases), and it won't have additional wording. However limited this sounds at first, it turns out to aid communication by providing the exact message you want. Simpler is better. You "cut to the chase" quickly, using phrases, and communication is enhanced.

Direct translation of sentences sometimes requires people to speak and write in ways they are not used to. Most Americans have rejected Standard Written English (SWE) in favor of a less structured way of using words. When translated into another language, the result can be gobbledegook.

It's quite often that way before translation, which is why so many English speakers misunderstand each other though they speak the same language. For example, most Americans misuse the word "only," by placing it in the wrong place in a sentence. If you will observe where "only" appears when people speak and write, you will find they are nearly always saying something other than what they mean.

This is only (ha!) one example of the complexity involved in sentence translation--even with a live person. An electronic device can't possibly second guess you and try to figure out what you mean vs. what you are saying. It doesn't have the context. This same factor is why e-mails are so widely misunderstood. English speakers rely more on context and other factors than sentence construction to convey meaning.

It's the old "garbage in / garbage out" rule catching up to you.

While sloppy speech may work fine within a given culture--and that's debatable because misunderstandings are so common--it completely undermines communication when translating between languages.

So if you want to communicate accurately, do this:

  1. Buy the best unit available.
  2. Give it "good English" to translate.
 
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