Out of curiosity, I decided to translate this Frisian (the closest continental language to English):
It's interesting to contrast this with a side-by-side translation of "normal" English with Frisian, where the similarity is much lower.
It's interesting to contrast this with a side-by-side translation of "normal" English with Frisian, where the similarity is much lower.
I tried using Google Translate to translate this to Portuguese (which I do speak) and I found some mistakes in the translation that might not have come up in normal English.
It's an interesting question to what extent you'd want the translator to understand what Anderson is trying to do and translate accordingly.
As a native Russian speaker, but one who moved to the United States 20 years ago, I do find the Google translation of Russian to be really excellent, as well as vice-versa (but Russian is much more widely spoken, including of course, by a Google Executive, than Frisian.)