Phrasebook: Literal Translations
Paralee and I were discussing the Phrasebook and how great it is to have all of the submissions. Truly, many of you have submitted dozen of phrases, and as the entire Spanishdict community works together, we will have an outstanding collection.
Very important! If you don't know the translation for a phrase, please don't just guess or use a machine translator. We have had many submissions that are nonsensical literal translations from English.
What should you do if you have a great phrase in English but don't know the Spanish? (or vice versa) Go to the "suggestions" or "sugeridas" tab on the Phrasebook and type in what you do know. For example (not a real example from the submissions) if you want to say "I am going to fly to Denver", unless you are confident of the correct way to say it, please don't guess or do a literal translation..."Voy a mosca a Denver" doesn't make sense in Spanish. 
Go to the "suggestions" or "sugeridas" area on the Phrasebook and type in "I am going to fly to Denver", and let someone else provide the Spanish.
Sometimes a literal translation is really a correct saying in Spanish, of course, so if you know that the literal translation is the common way of saying the phrase in Spanish, get that phrase in!
Why don't you visit the "suggestions" or "sugeridas" area and see if maybe you can provide some of the translations? Two heads are better than one! (Wait a minute!...is that phrase in the Phrasebook?)
Once again, we thank you for your patience as you wait to see your phrases published.
¡Buen trabajo, SpanishAddicts!
2 Answers
I am so glad that you opened this thread. Just today, I was considering attempting to translate all of the idioms and expressions that I have already suggested. There are a lot of them and I felt bad that I had not many any attempts to add a sentence or translation.
Now I can see that it is better for me to leave them this way. Thanks for stopping me from making a real mess of things. 
Hopefully, someone will be able to translate them properly.
Thanks again for all of the work that goes into the phrasebook!!!!
Thank you for saying this!! I have provided a few translations (maybe one or two) on my own suggested phrases that were guesses. Ooops!
However, after the guess I put (???) so that the person knew that I was no sure.
I'll be certain not to do this again, and I'll take a look at some of the entries and see if I can give a positive translation.
Thanks, Mountaingirl for all of the work that you are doing for us.
