User talk:Anatol Rath

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Translations

Your recent translations from German into English contain many errors and are quite difficult to understand. Please refrain from adding English translations, because it requires other people with better English to do the work of cleaning up after you, or else it gets left there and makes Wiktionary seem unprofessional. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:45, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

Please tell me: is this complaint issued only in regards to today's translation or in general? Because I admit that I felt pretty dizzy today while translating and really struggled at some passages but I have previously added many translations that were never criticized, so I ask if those were taken into account. Anatol Rath (talk) 22:06, 10 July 2019 (UTC)

I expect they were never criticised because nobody took a close look at them. But it was not just yesterday's, but all of them. [Here https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Konterbier&diff=prev&oldid=52749495] is one, for example, with some basic mistakes in the English spelling and grammar. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:55, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

I will stop. But I want to point out how I was thanked for two of the entries (Augenweide and Beiz). Please take this into account when cancelling the edits (which I expect you to do). Either leave it or ensure those two get translated properly because apparently they mean a lot to someone. Anatol Rath (talk) 10:25, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

I had taken close looks at them, and I was thankful for the sheer mass. It has been rare that I have noticed anything wrong. If one “yet notices that it is a translation” it is OK, I opine. It is not for literary purposes but one tries to avoid that the original is adulterated, and on the other hand boldness is needed to get the job done, but the job is not exactly to make literature. Though I sometimes do make literature – it is fele to file (example: عُقَار (ʕuqār)). There is even poetry I translated metrically. I want to emphasize that this is clearly supererogatory. Fay Freak (talk) 23:42, 12 July 2019 (UTC)