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> Most sources for machine translation from Arabic-English pairs are data from US Army / anti-terrorist data. Interesting! This is HN, where's the source? > I
by kfrzcode 9y ago
> Most sources for machine translation from Arabic-English pairs are data from US Army / anti-terrorist data.
Interesting! This is HN, where's the source?
> I cannot give you exact sources
I find your claim hard enough to believe but this seals the deal.
- Udik 9y agoIt'll turn out in due time that Bin Laden was just sending the US his best wishes. Joking of course, but up to a point. There are cases of words from the "enemy" deliberately translated in their more literal sense when their sense is figurative (one for all, "death to America"- even the official translation is "down with America"). And statements by Bin Laden himself have been deliberately ignored in the parts that made more sense from a political point of view, to reduce them to a more comfortable "we hate you because you're free".