translating tenses

[mmSarre]

So I've noticed the French seems to liberally use present tenses for a historical past--am I correct about that? If so, it seems to me we can't adopt that in our English translations. Anybody else wondering about this?

[angiedaytripper]

yes French often uses the present when telling a story in the past. I go for a translation which sounds good even if I have to change the tense but if translating against duobot you will be marked down for this.

[mmSarre]

I plan to fight duobot and its cruddy translations to the death on this.