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That sort of translation always had a lemon problem. How do you know if the translation to Portuguese is any good, if you don't speak Portuguese and don't know anyone who does? You can pay the expensive translator company, or the dodgy cheaper translator company that claims to be equally good.

Did you choose the responsible expensive option? Sucks, because they have been competing with the bad/automated translators so long that they squeeze their human translators so hard, they produce bad translations anyway.

Also, it didn't help that you didn't give them any context, but just sent them one sentence at a time, extracted from the strings in your program. Because we've all done that, haven't we?



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