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1. alternativeAlternative form of Google Translate.

   I google translated je t’embrasse. Lovely.

   2020, Tanuj Solanki, “Given Eichmann is guilty”, in The Machine is Learning, New Delhi: Macmillan, →ISBN

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   Topics range from funerals to the idea of the poetics of google translating Swedish song lyrics.

   2017 February, E. Conner, “Chasing the Night #3”, in Maximum Rocknroll, number 405, San Francisco, Calif.: Maximum Rocknroll, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Zines” section, page 116, column 1

   You called me a dumbass at the Baseball House. I google translated it.

   2022, Kate Marchant, chapter 21, in Whistleblower, Toronto, Ont.: Wattpad Books, published March 2023, →ISBN

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1. ambitransitiveTo translate (something) using the Google Translate machine translation service.

   Cleaning the pastry cutter with her spatula, Corie’s mind dipped to the little journal of Natalie’s. She’d Google Translated some of it, but for the most part, it didn’t make any sense. It mentioned the first crush, the alignment of the stars, the comet that year …

   2016, Ashley Elizabeth Ludwig, chapter 29, in First Crush, Raleigh, N.C.: Bling! Romance, →ISBN, page 192

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   Doing life admin in your own country is arduous enough, but attempting to do it in a foreign land, in a language with which you’re still not familiar, is nigh on impossible. After eleven months of Google Translating every document that came my way, I’ve become a little slack of late.

   2015, Helen Russell, “December: Trusting the Taxman (or Woman)”, in The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country, London: Icon Books, →ISBN, page 283

   After having the unfortunate experience of needing an emergency root canal while holidaying in Berlin (I didn’t realise it was a root canal until I Google Translated the receipt the next day – it certainly explains why it took so long and why the drugs they pumped into me made the three-hour Third Reich walking tour I went on immediately after the operation seem very visceral) I knew I needed to find a proper dentist when I got back to Melbourne.

   2021, Sinéad Stubbins, “Three doctors”, in In My Defence, I Have No Defence: Catastrophes in Pursuing Perfection, Melbourne, Vic.: Affirm Press, →ISBN, “The soul” section

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1. alternativeAlternative form of Google Translate.

   Anyway, I tried Google translating this but apparently I can’t spell for shit because it tells me he’s saying, ‘I want very much to woo you.’

   2014, Nicolas Billon, “Scene 1”, in Butcher, Toronto, Ont.: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 15

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   Digby pointed to bottles labeled in a foreign script. “Is that Hindi?” he said. / “Thai,” Silk replied. / Digby Google translated it. “Nandrolone decanoate.” But he looked skeptical.

   2016, Stephanie Tromly, chapter 13, in Trouble Makes a Comeback, New York, N.Y.: Kathy Dawson Books, →ISBN, page 138

   On 27 October 2016, Yana’s appeal is heard. In the night of 28 October, shells strike Makiivka. All I find in English is obvious Russian propaganda, blaming the explosion on ‘Ukrainian fascists’; I try Google translating a Russian article that a friend of Yana’s in Paris, the Ukrainian journalist Anna Chesanovska, sends me.

   2017 February, Jacqueline Feldman, “Marianne’s Breasts”, in Benjamin Eastham, Jacques Testard, editors, The White Review, number 19, London: The White Review, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 70