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How to answer a member in their own language with Polyglot: reply to the translation, and the author gets your message translated into their language.
Translation in Polyglot works in both directions. A member who does not speak the group's language can still be answered in theirs.
How to answer
- Find the translation the bot posted under the member's message.
- Reply to the translation, or to the original message, and write in your own language.
- The bot posts your answer to the author translated into their language, as a reply to their message, so they get a notification.
- To keep the chat clean, the bot deletes your message and its own earlier translation. Under the new message it keeps the previous translation and your text in a quote.
When the author answers
If the author replies to the bot's message, their answer is translated into the group's language and posted with a mention of the person they are answering. This way a conversation can go on in two languages.
Regional variants
When the author's Telegram language has a region, for example Brazilian Portuguese, the answer to them is translated into that variant.
Whose replies are sent back
The Translate only admins switch in Settings decides that:
- Off. Anyone's reply to a translation is sent back to the author in their language, and the "Reply to this message" hint is shown under each translation.
- On. Only administrators' replies are sent back this way. A reply from anyone else is translated into the group's language like a normal message, and the hint is not shown.
The switch does not limit whose messages are translated. Every member's messages are translated either way.