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The product seems amazing, but they are somehow cheating in the video. The signs (in Spanish) have grammar mistakes, but they are automatically translated to c
by cavorite 16y ago
The product seems amazing, but they are somehow cheating in the video.
The signs (in Spanish) have grammar mistakes, but they are automatically translated to correct English sentences. I have a few examples:
- The third sign says "Lo traduce el texto", but that sentence doesn't make sense. It should be "Traduce el texto" or even "Se traduce el texto".
- 'Ropas opcional' sounds strange to me, although it may be accepted in some countries.. It should be something like 'Ropas opcionales'.
I tried both examples in Google, Bing and Babel Fish and the results were OK, so I don't think that Word Lens translator is very accurate.
"Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will
the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to
apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke
such a question."
- ThomPete 16y agoIt's called marketing and frankly I don't think it takes anything away from the app.
- JeremyBanks 16y agoSure it does. I'd be impressed with this app doing word-for-word translation if that's what I expected. If On the other hand, if the examples uses grammatically incorrect source material to give the impression that it can do more than it can, I feel irritated at being misled, and I'm much less likely to support the product.
- ThomPete 16y agoSo I take it that you are less likely to buy toothpaste or cleaning products?