Ha, I just met a good example of a text you may hardly translate with MT means.
Look at this text which come from [1]: The term "manifold" comes from German Mannigfaltigkeit, by Riemann. In Romance languages, this is translated as "variety" – such spaces with a differentiable structure are called "analytic varieties", while spaces with an algebraic structure are called "algebraic varieties". In English, "manifold" refers to spaces with a differentiable or topological structure, while "variety" refers to spaces with an algebraic structure, as in algebraic varieties. This is a good example because cleary in German you obviously won't say that Mannigfaltigkeit come from the German Mannigfaltigkeit. Also if you translate it to a Romance language like French you won't formulate this paragraph in the same way. Well, it doesn't add more to what I already said, but it probably give a more concrete example of MT limits. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_manifolds_and_varieties _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l