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Beware 'back-translation'!
This is a common problem in Tatoeba, because it is often unclear which sentence is the original and which is a translation. (Particularly for the Japanese / English pairs).
Here's a simple example:
Original Japanese
A) ペン借りていい？
Translated English
B) Can I borrow your pen?
Somebody then sees that 'your' is not present in the Japanese and 'corrects' it.
あなたのペン借りていい？
Unfortunately this is now an unnatural sounding sentence. Even if it did sound natural, doing this for every occurrence of 'your' would give leave the collection with far more uses of あなたの than you would normally find used in Japanese.
The same thing applies where the English is original. 'the' has no direct equivalent in Japanese so その (that) is often used in the Japanese translation of English. If you go back and change uses of 'the' in English sentences to 'that' you are probably needlessly altering the original version.
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@Trang : Maybe you could put something like that in your blog?
This is very sound advice.
I have reformulated rule #5, previously "Do not change the meaning of a sentence", and now "Do not edit a sentence if, by itself, it is correct".
The content has also been readapted to include the problem you are mentioning.
http://blog.tatoeba.org/2010/02...eba.html#rule5
[not needed anymore- removed by CK]
The そのs aren't so much unnatural as the 'thats' that originate going the other direction (or when someone 'back-translates'). In any case I think we're best just persuading people not to over-do it when adding new sentences.
I wouldn't mind seeing some of the あなたのs and 私のs removed (it won't change the meanings and the the other languages wont be affected.) Just so long as you remove them from the indices at the same time.
I removed some when I was custodian of the JE pairs many years ago, but I got bored by it. I wish now I had done more of them.