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Really? I was actually surprised of how well Google translates Italian in most cases (I'm Italian). Most of the times, I encounter major translation issues whe
by bfred_it 9y ago
Really? I was actually surprised of how well Google translates Italian in most cases (I'm Italian).
Most of the times, I encounter major translation issues when the original sentence is barely intelligible in the original language. Other times there's a small mistake which could be understood by context in the original language but it's completely lost once translated — like it happens when you try to translate jokes and puns or when you miss a comma.
People generally don't write correctly, so Google needs a lot of luck to understand that "Let's eat grandma!" doesn't actually translate to "Mangiamo la nonna"
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I translated this whole comment for the sake of it and the result is extremely good. Not completely natural but well beyond understandable.
- bambax 9y agoI translate FROM Italian, not to it, and, well, most of the times, I don't understand the result. (It's likely Google Translate is better at going from English to another language, since it seems it uses English as a pivot. In fact that's how I use it if I want to write something in, say, German; I write in English, and check the French translation, and rephrase and rephrase, and don't accept the German version until the French translation is acceptable). Going back to Italian, here's a small example: Non potevano dirlo solo gli adulti?, which really means, I think, "Isn't it something only adults would say?" is translated by Google in English as: Could not only adults tell it? which doesn't seem to mean anything, and in French as: Les adultes ne pourraient-ils pas le dire? which means something, but a different thing from the English translation, and, I think, not the correct interpretation of the original Italian one.