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Traveling in Sweden I was amazed at how products would have instructions where whole sentences really only had two or three words different in the different Sca
by roywiggins 10y ago
Traveling in Sweden I was amazed at how products would have instructions where whole sentences really only had two or three words different in the different Scandinavian languages so only those words were translated, inline, separated by slashes.
It would be like having bilingual English/French text that went "Hello/Bonjour! Welcome to our home/maison!"
So, the feasibility of semiautomated translation doesn't come as a great surprise!
- Symbiote 10y agoIt's much more common for Norwegian and Danish to share a sentence, and Swedish to have its own. You can see this labelling on many products sold in Europe, like cosmetics, processed foods, and some electronics.