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I found a bumper sticker that I think is safe to put on my vehicle. The Orange Horror's (Original Post) catbyte Jan 2017 OP
What does it say? blue cat Jan 2017 #1
Looks safe to me. No idea what it says. Bonx Jan 2017 #2
Thanks to Alex Baldwin packman Jan 2017 #3
I'll have to ask my daughter, but she said it doesn't translate well. woodsprite Jan 2017 #4
It's Make America Great Again in Cyrillic catbyte Jan 2017 #5
It's not translated correctly flyingfysh Jan 2017 #6
Google Translate didn't quite get it right. MineralMan Jan 2017 #7

woodsprite

(11,916 posts)
4. I'll have to ask my daughter, but she said it doesn't translate well.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:20 PM
Jan 2017

The wrong form of "Great" was used.

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
7. Google Translate didn't quite get it right.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:35 PM
Jan 2017

The word "great' is translated poorly. The problem lies in the fact that "great" has more than one meaning in English. That introduces ambiguity into your source language. To get a correct translation into Russian, you have to be a little creative to avoid errors. "Excellent" would be a better word than "great" to use. "Great" also means large in English. "Excellent" has no ambiguity. Here's a better translation:

Сделать Америка oтлично cнова

It's a good idea never to trust Google translations, unless you know the target language yourself.

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