Calling Apolyton Linguists!

[MarkG]

I passed the phrase from the google translator but i'm sure it's not 100% correct

The original phrase is "Set this as the default language"

I need the following corrected:

German: Dieses als die Rückstellung Sprache einstellen
French: Placer ceci comme langue de défaut
Italian: Regolare questo come la lingua di difetto

Thank you in advance!

[Terra Nullius]

The French and Italian are fine.

Forget about the German. It's an ugly, ugly language.

[MarkG]

and this is what babelfish gives:

German: Stellen Sie dieses als die Rückstellung Sprache ein
French: Placez ceci comme langue de défaut
Italian: Regoli questo come la lingua di difetto

[SlowwHand]

Etch can help with German.

[MarkG]

where are the germans when you need them?

[lightblue]

Not german and someone will no doubt correct me but that sentence structure seems a bit stilted.

I would say something like:

Diese Sprache als die Rückstellung einstellen

[Lul Thyme]

The French is wrong.
Let me think of a good translation...

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by MarkG
and this is what babelfish gives:

French: Placez ceci comme langue de défaut
Italian: Regoli questo come la lingua di difetto

That's comprehensible, but I prefer the first translation.

The first one uses infinitive forms of the verbs, which is more common in written instructions. The babelfish translation uses ( formal - in the french, and informal in the italian) spoken imperative forms.

So the babelfish one is OK if you want to sound familiar and immediate, but the google one is more standard.

[Lul Thyme]

Utiliser ceci comme langue par défaut.
is already much better...
but could be improved...

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Saisir comme langue principale

[Fake Boris]

what LoA said

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Etch can help with German.

I am fluent in mock German:

Putten dis as die Defaultensprokentalk.

[CrONoS]

Apolyton Linguist UNITED!

Between the two sentence you gave to us:

You need to use the imperative form, so this one will be better:
Placez ceci comme langue de défaut ...

But the best one is the one Lawrence Of Arabia just said:
--> "Saisir comme langue principale"

[OzzyKP]

LoA is a cunning linguist indeed.

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
You need to use the imperative form, ...

But the best one is the one Lawrence Of Arabia just said:
--> "Saisir comme langue principale"

Que?

Didn't you just contradict yourself there?