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Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit' (2018)
- conmarap 7y agoGreek has funny animal noises. Dog: γάβ (yav - but pronounce the y as yearn). Chicken: πάκ πάκ πάκ (pak pak pak). Bird in general: τσίου (tsiou - pronounced kind of like chew).
- ariehkovler 7y agoAnimal sounds in different languages are weird in the first place. Ducks go "Quack" in English, but "Coin" in French (sounds more like "kwan"), "mac" in Romanian and "rap" in Danish. Horses go "vrink" in Danish and "gnagg" in Swedish. And as for frogs... https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/animal-sounds-in-different-languages-james-chapman/animal-sounds-in-different-languages-james-chapman-10.jpg https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uuuploads/anim...
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoDucks go gua in Chinese. My bilingual toddler gets confused between English quack and Chinese gua.
- smnra 7y agodeepl is much better than Google Translate.
- yorwba 7y agoNot in this case. Using "The frog croaks 'ribbit'." as an example sentence [0] with contextual clues, I only got translations that, when translated back, yielded either "rib", "rabbit" or "ribbon". [0] https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/7137639 https://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/7137639