Cycle Donnez Votre Blog

[shootingstar]

After seeing how my blog title translated, I seriously wonder. And that's just the title....

My partner sometimes starts off with automatic translation software when he does attempt to write a simple letter to his relative(s) in German.Then he checks painstakingly, each sentence and will resort to a dictionary if the sentence doesn't make sense to him in order to find a better German word. The idea for him is to shortcut abit of figuring out the basic grammar and sentence sructure, but it still demands a person to understand the correct grammar and syntax, to ensure the framework for word usage is a sound foundation.

[malkin]

When I put "Cycle Write Blog" into Babelfish, it gives me:
le cycle écrivent le blog.

I'm not sure where the "donnez" is coming from.

If you were looking for sentence structure, the translator would be useless because although it is a cute and catchy title, "Cycle Write Blog" doesn't really have a correct English grammatical form.

It looks like for the translation above, Babelfish imposed a Noun (cycle), Verb (write), Noun (blog) structure just as it would for a sentence like "Man bites dog."

[tulip]

I read it as three verbs: cycle, write, and blog. Hard to be sure with no commas though.

[malkin]

That makes sense, Tulip.

I guess I had sort of play on words in mind possibly because I am overly fond of the suffix "-wright" as a homonym of right and write.

[shootingstar]

I agree malkin, Babelfish's translation is a bit closer.

As for name of blog in English: of course, I deliberately invented a blog name that was "brand like" and catchy. Yes, I chose it for the pun on write vs. right. It's a good lesson how brand names need to be translated in a spirit that reflects the original meaning of a 'name'.

[malkin]

And even thoughtful human translators will struggle with any sort of double meaning.