Google-translate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of Google Translate. alt-of, alternative
"A few weeks ago, I wrote a column in which I complained about being forced to write fewer words than usual. As a protest, I then petulantly switched to more concise languages, including teenage Twitterspeak, aboriginal Australian and also, in some places where my column was published, Hebrew. How did I obtain the Hebrew? I Google-Translated my own lines."
- 2 Alternative form of Google Translate. alt-of, alternative
"There was a letter inside, a Google-translated message in Ukrainian asking Slava L. to provide me and my party with pot in Uman. I had not asked the stoned guy to do this, but it had seemed impolite to refuse the note. He’d gone to the trouble of Google-translating it back and forth several times, as if by this process the translation of the pot request might be incrementally refined."
- 3 Alternative form of Google Translate. alt-of, alternative
"She spent hours on Wikipedia, wading through blogs, posting to forums and google-translating pages and pages of Cyrillic, trying to understand how the Russkaya Mafiya worked."
Example
More examples"A few weeks ago, I wrote a column in which I complained about being forced to write fewer words than usual. As a protest, I then petulantly switched to more concise languages, including teenage Twitterspeak, aboriginal Australian and also, in some places where my column was published, Hebrew. How did I obtain the Hebrew? I Google-Translated my own lines."
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