Translating every word or no?

[jdgreg]

In articles to be translated there are often words and phrases in perfect english. Should we be copying them to the translated side or just leaving them alone?

[Viaggiatore]

If you want a complete translated text, I suppose you should include the originally English stuff also. In some cases you may want to mark it as [English original] or whatever if you think the reader should know that. You'll get a few points for translating when you really didn't do anything, but we all need a rest once in a while. If you feel bad about that, you can translate the English into Spanish!

[anomalocaris]

If no one "translates" those sentences, the article will be considered "incomplete" forever, so it's helpful in that way. A solution that Duolingo could implement is a checkmark for "this sentence is already in English" that people could click for 1 point or something.

[jdgreg]

Thanks for the comments. They clear up the matter for me.