Talk:Beisetzen/@comment-5670680-20191113181906/@comment-5670680-20191119103514

Like I already mentioned, I never saw the response on me as hostile, it was just relaying critique on an insufficient thought process (fancy words ikr). To be fair, my message could be interpreted as curt because of the lack of explicit "nice thngs", but this leads to the point I made that it's weird it's not assumed as good faith from me (rough week: kinda numb when I wrote it so I only got the feedback out as quick as possible). Should I have written the hyperbole? Maybe, maybe not. I aimed for it to point out irony to hopefully teach something without having to spell it out. Maybe it makes it appear "not nice", but then again it's critical so it's not meant to be nice, it's something to be learned off.

More detailed feedback regarding the issue now that I have time: Using a search engine requires some thought as well. Just mindlessly input-ouput-ing a word doesn't work. As someone who can speak 4 languages, I have a considerable amount of translation experience, thus I take into account grammar rules when translating (because I have experience with both latin and germanic languages, which have drastically different rules). You have to be aware of these things, because a search engine will not.

E.g. An infinitive form of a verb is the same as the singular in English (Example: I bury and We bury). In German, its plural only (Example: Ich setze bei and Wir setzen bei''). A search engine cannot interpret wether you meant a singular, a plural or infinitive form.

A quick research as to how you got Beisetzen when translating Buried (which should actually be translated correctly) showed me you probalby got Begraben as a translation. Coincidentally, Begraben can be translated as both Bury and Buried because of the the Be-prefix. This means that it is both the Past Participle as well as the Infinitive. A synonym for Begraben will thus look for a synonym in the infinitive form (the base), which gave Beisetzen. This word however has a different Past Participle (I gave it earlier).

Google Translate is a tool, not an oracle. It's a calculator, you need to put in the formula correctly otherwise it will not calculate properly (x - y*z doesn't equal (x - y)*z, even if you know the brackets are there, the computer also needs to know).

Hope this makes it preventable in the future (and for everyone who shouldn't be cocnerned with this but still read it, learn from this as well :D)