Off topic: An unusual Spanish variant Tēmas autors: RominaZ
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RominaZ 
Argentīna
angļu - spāņu
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JH Trads
ASV
Local time: 16:15
Biedrs (kopš 2007)
angļu - franču
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el improvisado traductor no sea un gran ventilador de los diccionarios...
me explico: "gran ventilador" = "big fan" (anécdota real que presencié en que un angloparlante declaró en español a un artista hispanohablante ser su gran y fiel ventilador)
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Phil Hand
Ķīna
Local time: 04:15
ķīniešu - angļu
I don't speak Spanish, but that one's pretty easy to understand.
The artist should have told the admirer to grab a palm frond and start fanning, create a little Egyptian vibe.
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neilmac
Spānija
Local time: 22:15
spāņu - angļu
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Unfortunately, many English speakers still think that sticking an "o" on the end of words makes it into Spanish. I blame Arnie and the Terminator movies for giving us "no problemo"...
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Possibly an example of translation by a non-native speaker?
Whoops!
Jenny
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Lingua 5B
Bosnija un Hercegovina
Local time: 22:15
Biedrs (kopš 2009)
angļu - horvātu
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| Love the Spanglish | Sep 7, 2012 |
 ... Very creative, surely.
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LEXpert
ASV
Local time: 15:15
Biedrs (kopš 2008)
horvātu - angļu
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| Even a stopped clock... | Sep 7, 2012 |
neilmac wrote:
Unfortunately, many English speakers still think that sticking an "o" on the end of words makes it into Spanish. I blame Arnie and the Terminator movies for giving us "no problemo"...
is still right twice a day By sheer brute force of numbers they will sometimes produce an actual Spanish word (entero) even if in the wrong mood and person.
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I have not heard of the Translator Playground before, but now I am definitely going to look for it. very funny!
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JH Trads
ASV
Local time: 16:15
Biedrs (kopš 2007)
angļu - franču
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our ‘budding translator’ drew some inspiration from Spanish speakers who ‘coined’ the new word “grocería” to name grocery stores (practically a direct borrowing from English). For prozians who do not know Spanish, "grocería" does not exist in standard Spanish and happens to sound exactly like “grosería”, which means rude remark or vulgarity...I'm not a big fan...
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| Who reads signs anyway? | Sep 8, 2012 |
This seems to be clear, standard Spanish.
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