Yes, thank you for considering this.  It would be a big help. I'm
working with Thai and it's a pretty loosely constructed language so
multiple iterations of reversal and revision are usually necessary.
This would be a great help.

On Oct 24, 6:26 pm, Xi Cheng (Google employee) wrote:
> thanks for the suggestion and support.
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> On Oct 24, 7:57 pm, wwkudu wrote:
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> > Suggestion: Provide optional "backtranslation", which takes the
> > result text and puts it through areversetranslation. This could help
> > see how a native speaker of the target language would understand the
> > result, and would help in tweaking until the intended result is
> > obtained.
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> > E.g. I translate sentence Se from English to French, obtaining
> > resulting sentence Rf. If "translate back" is selected, then
> > automatically a second results Re is show which has taken French Rf
> > and used the translate engine to translate into English giving result
> > Re.
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> > If I did atranslationwith the option (say checkbox) unselected, then
> > selecting it would automatically do thereverse/backtranslation.
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> > Thanks for a great tool.

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