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Let's try (Brazilian) Portuguese: "Google e Facebook declararam guerra aos sites de Internet que difundem notícias falsas, que o buscador e a rede social vão i
by personlurking 10y ago
Let's try (Brazilian) Portuguese:
"Google e Facebook declararam guerra aos sites de Internet que difundem notícias falsas, que o buscador e a rede social vão impedir que se beneficiem de seus serviços de publicidade."
"Google and Facebook have declared war on Internet sites that broadcast fake news that the search engine and social network will prevent them from benefiting from their advertising services."
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After the comma (which Google misses in its English translation), the word "que" (that) should be translated as "which" in this case. Also, the reflexive "beneficiar-se" (to benefit onself, used here in the imperative/command tense) seems to have confused Google, likely due to having missed the comma earlier. I took out the middle part of the second clause and translated only "que vão impedir que se beneficiem" and Google got it right, translating it as "which will prevent them from benefiting".
I have experience translating from BR-PT to EN (and even vice-versa for my own testing), and BR-PT native speakers have a habit of writing long-winded, run-on sentences in all sorts of published literature. I'm curious to see Google understand that aspect, which even trips me up once in a blue moon.
- meirelles 10y agoI'm a Portuguese native speaker. I saw a clear improvement, but I noticed errors to identify who is the subject of the context. Unlike English which the subject always is explicit (repeating a lot the pronouns I, you, they, e etc) in Portuguese we normally omit. Is quite challenging for a machine understand that.
- mbrookes 10y ago"once in a blue moon" That feels like the wrong idiom in this context, just "once in a while" sounds better. But I couldn't decide why it sounded wrong, so I googled "once in a blue moon". I didn't arrive at a conclusion, but: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=once+in+a+blue+moon https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=once+in+a+blue+moon "once in a blue moon = 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz" Huh?!
- derkha 10y ago> 1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz IOW, once every 2.7 years. Google Calculator is genius.
- spicyj 10y agoI figure someone at Google thought it was funny to say that blue moons occur approximately every 1 / (1.16699016 × 10-8 hertz) = 992 days. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F(1.16699016+%C3%97+10%5E-8+hertz) http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F(1.16699016+%C3%97+...
- SEMW 10y ago> I figure someone at Google thought it was funny to say that blue moons occur approximately every ... 992 days. Not sure if your comment's implying it's a random number picked for amusement? That figure (2.7 years) seems about right to me -- the frequency of a blue moon is necessarily the same as the frequency that a lunisolar calendar has to add a leap month, which is every 2 or 3 years. I don't see any reason to doubt Google's number.
- spicyj 10y agoWell, it is funny even if true. I searched quickly and found a page that claimed there were 15 blue moons in 20 years so I wasn't sure.
- personlurking 10y agoI'm a native English speaker. Once in a blue moon, although meaning "very rarely", is fine since I'm using it to say "every so often". But, yes, if we want to nitpick, "which even trips me up very rarely" doesn't sound great. Although, "which even trips me up every so often" does work.
- mercer 10y agoI couldn't figure out at first why it felt off to me as well, but I think you hit the nail on the head. It's not wrong, it's just a little off/unusual.
- drecoe 10y agoBefore this update it was translating "Eu tenho 30 anos" as "I have 30 years" which was literal but didn't make sense in the most common context of that phrase. I'm pleased to see that it now correctly translates it as "I'm 30 years old".