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Old May 09, 2011, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by BoatPeople View Post
Puedo ver que yo voy a recibir mucho ayuda aquí. Soy consciente (o conocimiento?) de los problemas de traducción de Google. No quiero continuar en este foro. Hay foro donde puedo escribir libremente? También aprecio todas de sus criticas.
There is a forum here named "General Chat /Charla libre" where you can choose your topic, use either language and you won't be corrected unless you ask so.

As a general rule, Internet forums that deal with language -and many other subjects- are not so thread opener oriented nor similar to a moderated chat. The questions are generally answered in the belief that those answers will be useful to dozens or even hundreds of users in the future (as a rule of thumb, for each new thread there are a hundred people that reach it using search engines and find their answers there). Many questions, if not most, are thoroughly answered in the belief many people will benefit of it, not only the thread openers, so sometimes they don't get the intended answer in the expected way. Even sometimes there seem to be personality conflicts where just purpose -or lack thereof- conflicts exist.

I'm telling this because you might think your ways and objectives were questioned from a personal point of view being it that in fact one man's meat is another man's poison. It is as a general tool for learning languages that Google translate is nightmarish, and systematically feeding forums with the product of that technique could lead to endless discussions where finally the product will be the right translation that Google didn't provide and a couple of notes about languages tangentially emerging from the whirlpool.

You may find extremely useful these and other forums to ask about every kind of language topic and your expectations plenty satisfied. But the general and greater good is the final goal and methods that feed the language arena with software failure instead of human troubles should be avoided most of the time.
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