[Corpora-List] Man bites dog

DJamé Seddah djame.seddah at free.fr
Mon Nov 21 17:45:27 CET 2011



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> For the record, Google's translation system gets this one right:
> http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|homme%20mord%20chien

I'm not sure if it does get it right as "homme mord chien" is not grammatical in French as determiners are (most of the time) mandatory. Reversing the translation (English to French) "man bites dog" gives "**l'homme morsures de chien" (*the man dog bites-NNS ) whereas "a man bites a dog" gives the proper translation.



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