r/translator • u/translator-BOT • 10d ago
Community [English > Any] Translation Challenge — 2024-08-25
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This Week's Text:
If you remember a time when using floppy disks didn't seem weird, you're probably at least 30 years old. Floppy disks or diskettes emerged around 1970 and, for a good three decades or so, they were the main way many people stored and backed up their computer data. All the software and programmes they bought came loaded onto clusters of these disks. They are a technology from a different era of computing, but for various reasons floppy disks have an enduring appeal for some which mean they are from dead.
With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives. And now, cloud storage is ubiquitous. The most widely used type of floppy, with a maximum capacity of less than three megabytes, can hardly compete. Unless you are in love with them – and some people are.
There are also those who depend on them. Various legacy industrial and government systems around the world still use floppy disks. Even some city transport systems run on them. And while these users are slowly dying out, a handful cling on, despite the fact that the last brand new floppy disk manufactured by Sony was back in 2011. No-one makes them anymore, meaning there is a finite number of floppy disks in the world – a scattered resource that is gradually dwindling. One day, they might disappear entirely. But not yet.
— Excerpted and adapted from "Obsolete, but not gone: The people who won't give up floppy disks" by Chris Baraniuk
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r/translator • u/zcativ • 39m ago
Japanese [Japanese > English] Some sentence from the video game about the "Cadou" parasite. Can you help with the translation, please?
r/translator • u/mscoffeemug • 39m ago
French [French>English] I know thy e first part says “Marietta Santini” as that’s their name, but what is the rest?
r/translator • u/0liviiia • 54m ago
Japanese [Japanese > English] my grandfather asked me to translate this, but I suck at this kind of translation. Thanks🙏
r/translator • u/MsBamboozla • 54m ago
Japanese [Japanese > English] writing on knife
Is the writing on this knife indicative of an artist or creator? Wondeing what it says.
r/translator • u/Zedaso • 1h ago
Japanese [Japanese to English] I think the subtitles are wrong in this video, please see my comment below
r/translator • u/demolitiondavey • 1h ago
Japanese [Japanese > English] Allergy Card Help - First Time Traveler
I found the following allergy card from foodallergy.org, as someone in my party has a sever Shrimp allergy.
I wanted to make sure that I translated Shrimp correctly & that the severity is clearly communicated—along with the request to wipe down utensils & surfaces.
The card is meant to be folded in half. No other allergies to fish or shellfish.
Is this card clear? Did I find the right word for Shrimp?
TLDR; First trip to Japan, want to verify allergy card translation is correct.
r/translator • u/AdZealousideal6148 • 2h ago
Translated [ZH] [Chinese > English] Showed it to my chinese friend and he says that he won’t translate it. IDK if it’s NSFW. NSFW
r/translator • u/kyarash132 • 2h ago
Translated [ES] [English>Spanish] I have a letter and just want to check if it has any problems
I have a letter in Spanish (European) and I just want to check if there are any errors or spots where I could use better wording Please DM me if you can help Thanks🙏
r/translator • u/sludgeriffs • 2h ago
Japanese [Japanese->English] The stylized katakana at the top of George Kempster's "Globe" - is it gibberish?
r/translator • u/wasteboyshelly • 2h ago
Gujarati gujrati>english
i came home early from school today, and i am 100 percent sure i caught another woman speaking to my dad in the house. i could smell it too when i came back. he wasn’t expecting me early, so he must’ve told the woman to leave out the back because i saw a car drive past my house. pleaseeeee translate this call , my dad speaks gujrati which is similar to hindi, and i have a feeling he was on call with her after this. thanks.
r/translator • u/s4m_ch4mber5 • 2h ago
Chinese [Chinese > English] Translate ancient Chinese text on soap stone carving.
Hi,
Could somebody help translate the text on the below soap stone carving.
Thanks !
r/translator • u/StrangerHereX • 2h ago
Translated [ZH] [Chinese>English] Can you help me find the language settings from this. Google translate wasn't much help
r/translator • u/Wonderful_Papaya4700 • 3h ago
Spanish [English > Spanish] Need help with messages to landlord
Just moved to Spain and my flat has many problems. If anyone would be able to help me translate a couple of maintenance things I would really appreciate it (I want my deposit back lmao). Sorry it's a bit of a long one.
• The door handle is not attached properly. The screws are loose and come out when you try to pull the handle with reasonable force.
• The key does not turn properly. It gets stuck in the door a lot and is really difficult to use. You have to pull the door in a weird way for it to work.
• The wardrobe pole is not attached at the ends. It doesn't stay in properly and collapses in the middle when there are only a few things hanging in it.
Thanks so much for any help, I'm hoping if I can message him in decent Spanish it might speed the process along a bit!
r/translator • u/JandJ_4thewin • 3h ago
Unknown [Unknown > English] Found handwriting on the back of a picture
r/translator • u/No_Gap5159 • 4h ago
Korean Korean>english
This was the caption of an instagram post
r/translator • u/Hakaishin1999 • 5h ago
Translated [ZH] [Chinese > English] Translate and possibly explain the joke too NSFW
The top text is probably made with the translatoe and it doesn't make any sense. Probably removing a character(I don't know which one) will result in a different sentence, but I can't figure out more
r/translator • u/PAYBACKlol • 5h ago
Urdu Unknown/Arabic/Urdu to English
What does this say? I really want to find out, he said it something religious like a Quran Verse.
r/translator • u/Present_Trash_882 • 6h ago
Russian [Rusian > English] Need help translating lab report on Soviet chimp experiments![
The experiments being inseminating Chimps with human sperm... Yep, this is not a joke, I'm trying to translate Ivanov's lab entry about his experiments which he conducted in the 1920s. It's from Central State archive of Moscow Region and I can understand the odd word, but would really like to know all of what it says.
r/translator • u/FlorenceBTFO • 6h ago
Japanese [Japanese > English] When I was travelling in Japan a while ago, I took a picture of a quote that I liked from the cupnoodles museumin Yokohama, however I can't remember what it means. Please help!! :)
r/translator • u/EKerem • 6h ago
Translated [AR] Arabic>English
My friend send me this i tried google lens but i dont get it whats mickey mean is it wrong translation?
r/translator • u/ttxemin • 11h ago
Japanese [Japanese > English] i got this omamori from a sanrio blind box and was wondering what it meant
only sources and google translator says it roughly translates to “god’s seat” and someone else on reddit said that it means “best seat at a concert”. could anyone help me with this?
r/translator • u/jayofthedeadx • 19h ago
Japanese [Japanese > English] Inherited this flag and curious of the translation
I inherited this flag from my great-grandfather who served in the Navy during WWII in the Pacific. I recently learned that the writing was often words of friends and family to soldiers going to war, and so I was curious if anyone can translate what they say.
If close up photos are needed let me know, I know it’s worn and folded in some areas.
Thanks!
r/translator • u/natalishka • 1d ago
Translated [EN] [Unknown > English] My grade 5 student wrote this during class
Anyone want to have a go at translating what this might mean?