I've noticed a weird variation on the I-don't-know-the-answer-but-here's-a-wild-guess syndrome on AskMe: in "help me translate this" questions, people who quite clearly don't speak the target language still offer their awkward, ungrammatical or just-plain-wrong translations.
This is compounded by the fact that the askers obviously don't speak the language either, and probably already have a tough time picking the best translations. Examples:
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here and an oldie
here..
posted by signal to etiquette/policy at 8:37 PM (111 comments total)
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posted by carsonb at 8:51 PM on October 7, 2007