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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by _cs2017_ on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @10:22PM (#18342871)
The title would be a great sentence to test the quality of machine translation.
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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by Odenwaelder on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:18AM (#18344474)
"Astronomen schleichen sich bis an den Rand des Schwarzen Lochs der Milchstraße"

Perfect german translation.

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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by Hei1Fuya on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:45AM (#18345615)
A decent translation, but maybe not quite idiomatic. Herantasten or annähern instead of schleichen feel more appropriate.
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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by _cs2017_ on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:32PM (#18347128)
Oh so the word for "creep" they used in German is appropriate for the metaphorical meaning of "investigating/watching"? Does the most direct dictionary translation of "creep" happen to fit here?

If the translator figured out that this is a figurative meaning and intentionally picked a suitable translation, I'm very impressed!

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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by jamesblonde on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:07AM (#18344435)
"Astronomer krypa upp till kanten på Mjölkets svarta hål" (creep up to the edge of the milk's black hole) - Swedish
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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by BrandonMarc on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:48AM (#18346115)
Needs more "bork"
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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by sedatk on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:56PM (#18347347)
“Gökbilimciler Samanyolu'nun Kara Deliğinin Kenarına Kadar Sürünüyor”

Turkish, and I’m amazed at its accuracy. Turkish has been phenomenally hard to translate from English. Google has done a great job there.

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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by trulyrandom on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:13AM (#18344984)
"Astronomen kruipen omhoog naar de rand van het zwarte gat van de melkweg" - Dutch

Close, but not quite.

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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by nunobrito on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:01AM (#18346232)
"Astrónomos espiam o limite da Via Láctea"

Portuguese/Galician

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Re:Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black... by _cs2017_ on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @12:36PM (#18347170)
Is this any good?
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