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The funniest part is that Nate's response is almost equally bad Japanese.
by ephesus 16y ago
The funniest part is that Nate's response is almost equally bad Japanese.
- tjarratt 16y agoCould you offer a translation? I'm curious how it relates, going the other direction.
- auxbuss 16y agoAccording to Google Translate <drum roll>: Mr. Matsumoto, Hi. This is Nate. Google translator, the incompetence which is vulgar. (Laughs) Make sure to email me directly. You can write in Japanese. I will help you. Sadly, no goats.
- harisenbon 16y agoWow. Google actually did a pretty good job with that one. Although I have to admit, the sentences are short and unnaturally terse, so google would have an easy time with it. It actually sounds better in the Google-translated english than his Japanese. :/ I do like that he wrote his name two different ways in the same message. (Ne-to vs Neito)
- delackner 16y agoFar from "nearly equally" as bad, at least Nate's text is easily interpreted in the intended way. His grammer may be very stiff and incorrect, but for a non-native speaker who probably doesn't live in Japan, give him some slack. That said, I did enjoy his construction 「あなたは日本語で書くことができます。私はあなたを助けるつもりです。」Trying to preserve the jerky tone: "You are able to write japanese! It is my intention to rescue YOU."
- rflrob 16y agoIt might be bad Japanese (my own Japanese wasn't ever good, and it's been years since I've studied it at all, so I can't evaluate), but it is at least comprehensible.
- darren_ 16y agoOh, nowhere near as bad, it's readily comprehensible. I think it's machine translated itself though, I was able to get the same phrases out by typing in what I thought the English originals were likely to be (e.g. "私はあなたを助けるつもりです" comes from "I am going to help you"). While doing this I was disappointed to see that Google Translate makes one of the biggest English->Japanese beginner mistakes - overuse of anata ('you'), which you hardly ever use in Japanese.