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I was going to write an answer along the same lines as Adam's. As an extra tip you can set the source language to be automatically detected so you do not even have to know that. Words such as "colour" will be a translation of "suit" and "honour" will often show up as something comical like "shape" or "character". My experiences from this method have been identical to Adam's.
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Posted 2013-December-23, 14:54
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Posted 2013-December-23, 21:51
Cromlyn, on 2013-December-21, 06:26, said:
I was enjoying myself in the Main Bridge Club when after a few hands the opponents started talking in a foreign language. I have no idea what they were talking about and it could have been quite innocent but I thought everyone on BBO was supposed to use English? Is this correct?
If so what should I do when this happens?
If so what should I do when this happens?
Simply open up Google split screen with active BBO hand (Keep playing at same time) and copy and paste into google with the word "translate" in front of it, I do it all the time
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Posted 2013-December-24, 04:28
awm, on 2013-December-23, 13:12, said:
When this happens on BBO I sometimes try to use Google Translate. While this is certainly imperfect (sometimes humorously so) I can normally get the gist of what is being discussed. Usually it is opponents criticizing each other's bidding/play on the prior hand, in which case I am thankful that they did not make me listen to the ridiculous recriminations live or read them in a language I understand. 
Instead, they made you copy-paste their ridiculous recriminations into Google translate
The easiest way to count losers is to line up the people who talk about loser count, and count them. -Kieran Dyke