P.S. You’d think that she would tell you how to make that link seem more like part of the conversation sometime, what with the word-use degree … oh well …

New member. Favorably impressed.

That’s why I used the word transliterating in my last paragraph because I felt the author just didn’t write that paragraph as well as it could have been written. It is more of a critique of the style of writing and I understand that in magazine journalism, the authors don’t have time to please me to no end. :lol: The paragraph rubbed me the wrong way in both German and English. I guess, for “fast food” style of writing, it’ll have to do.

That reminds me of a time a friend’s house was broken into and the local newspaper reported the event as;
“A burglary occurred on Main St. …. and the burglar entered the house through an open door”, despite the police report showing evidence of large amounts of destruction of two doors and door jambs. That was not a good week for that writer and the newspaper stopped reporting details about crimes about which they have no clues.

I’m sensitive to certain types of errors in writing and I can understand how celebrities feel when what is reported about them is ever so slightly askew.

Indeed, “Intelligence is sexy” and as a perpetual student, I am a sponge in learning something new here every day.

this article has a second part which is specially about you. Did you notice? It seem geo74 translated it.

Regarding the translation of the 2nd page which is all about Marina, the first paragraph on that page is not a bad translation, however I might chose different words to reflect the context.

The word “unwahrscheinlich” can be translated as “most unlikely” as the Google translator did, but I don’t get that from the context of the first paragraph. My choice of translation would have been “fantastic”.

The next word “Sprachlehrerin” was translated as teacher. Literally translated, it would be, “Teacher of Speaking” which refers to “Language Teacher”, but in context, I would translate it to, teacher of language or teacher of words.

Now, here is how I would translate (transliterate) that first sentence.

Google said:
“Marina Orlova is probably the most unlikely teacher in the world.”

I would say:
“Marina Orlova is no doubt the most fantastic teacher of words in the world.”

My transliteration has a much better feel to it, don’t you think?
The second and third paragraphs are much harder to translate via software due to the author’s use of idioms and colloquial expressions.

gio74 did a good job of translating down below.