Monday, September 27, 2010

Translation Fun

Just this afternoon I've been given the honour of grading some translations so that The Gioi has a record of who is good and who is bad. I thought that I would share with you the opening sentence from each of them, just to give you a taste of what I'm up against.

Like many nations in the world, 54 ethnics group of Vietnam have existed the primitive beliefs.

54 ethic groups of Vietnam, like many others in the world, had ever held primitive beliefs which say that every object has a soul.

Like other ethnic groups in the world, the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam used to follow many primitive religions.

Like other races in the world, 54 Vietnamese ethic groups also have their own primitive belief .

Like many other nations in the world, Vietnamese 54 ethnic groups have ever had the primitive religious beliefs.

Like other ones in the world, 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam have also appeared folk religious beliefs.

Like many other peoples in the world, 54 Vietnam’s ethnic groups did have their primitive beliefs.

Like many other ethic groups in the world, 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups also had primitive religions.

Like many other peoples in the world, 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups did hold primitive religious beliefs.

Like many nations in the world, 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups used to have primitive faiths.

Like many other peoples over the world, primitive beliefs existed in 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam.

Like many other nations in the world, there used to exist primitive beliefs in 54 nations of Vietnam.

As many other ethnic groups in the world, 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam also have had primitive religions.

Like many ethnic groups in the world, Vietnam 54 ethnic groups practiced folk beliefs.

Some good, some bad it seems.

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