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Meta Should translation questions be considered off-topic?

Questions about translations could be interesting or useful. For instance, asking about translations that are contested, or wouldn’t be easy to understand by using translation software (perhaps req...

posted 7mo ago by Eric Isaac‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Eric Isaac‭ · 2023-10-20T22:33:02Z (7 months ago)
Questions about translations could be interesting or useful. For instance, asking about translations that are contested, or wouldn’t be easy to understand by using translation software (perhaps requiring additional cultural input). In this case, the asker should bring both the original text and the translation in question.

_Translate this for me_ questions should be off topic. Perhaps the only exception being if someone is asking about a historic/dead language, or one for which language translation services tend to work poorly. Generally, this should not include widely spoken living languages.