How to disable Gmail's offer to translate Gmail messages into a foreign language

Andy

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Nov 4, 2015, 12:33:00 PM11/4/15

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Hi all,

Within the last couple of days, Gmail decided that I want every message translated into French. (I speak primarily English.) I think this happened when I received a message that had two lines in French that I couldn't handle myself (it's been years...). So I went to the pull-down menu and tried "Translate message". But it failed to auto-detect the language, so I manually selected French to English. Even then it didn't recognize the French lines. (This has worked in the past, where it could spot lines or even just words within a message otherwise written in English.) So I had to go to the Internet for a translation.

Ever since, Gmail wants to (i.e., offers to) translate all my messages from English into French!

Why? How do I make it stop?

I checked both my Gmail settings and Google account settings and they both still think my preferred language is English (US).

Any ideas? It's a minor inconvenience, but an inconvenience nonetheless.

Thanks,

Andy

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Nov 5, 2015, 1:01:00 AM11/5/15

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I also noticed that the option to "Translate this message" is now gone from the drop-down menu!

Arrgh! What have the folks at Google been smoking lately? Why do they have to ruin their products by enhancing them so that they don't work anymore?

Frustrated....

Andy

Marko Vukovic

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Nov 5, 2015, 5:07:49 AM11/5/15

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Andy <AI.e...@gmail.com> wrote:

I also noticed that the option to "Translate this message" is now gone from the drop-down menu!

Arrgh! What have the folks at Google been smoking lately? Why do they have to ruin their products by enhancing them so that they don't work anymore?

I gather you have tried the usual clear cache and cookies step? I did as you did and mine is not broken.