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Originally Posted by aleCcowaN
I suppose you meant mientras escribo or al escribir instead of mientras escritura  (which really do not sound idiomatic at all to any Spanish speaker) |
No, what I meant to say is that the "obvious" correction of
mientras escritura to
mientras escribo sounds like a literal translation from English and that I think
al escribir is far preferable.
The way Google translate works is to find text which it thinks has already been translated and then to look for patterns across a large corpus. It's not quite the same as word-for-word, but it does sometimes look rather like it. At other times it produces completely incomprehensible results. See e.g.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1999