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One issue with Japanese specifically is that the subject is often omitted from the sentence and inferred from context. It's less common to see the equivalent pr
by nonbirithm 6y ago
One issue with Japanese specifically is that the subject is often omitted from the sentence and inferred from context. It's less common to see the equivalent pronouns of "I" or "they" in Japanese, but it's required a lot more in English. A machine translation would have to determine what pronoun to use when there isn't one in the original sentence to go off of, which is hard.
Then there are other things besides pronouns that require inference. For example, adding な to the end of a sentence could mean either a modifier expressing admiration or confirmation, or it could be indicate a demand or order not to do something. In machine translation it almost always seems to be translated to "don't" no matter the context. That only makes the translation less accurate.
- hrktb 6y agoI get the feeling that pronouns are also not explicit in Chinese most of the time, making it as hard to properly translate in english. And I’d assume that could be the most common language people would want to translate from online platforms in this day and age.
- fireattack 6y agoIt's not nearly as bad compared to Japanese. And it pretty much only happens in conversations.
- yorwba 6y agoThe most common language people would want to translate from online platforms is most likely English, given it's ubiquitous use on the internet and the fact that there are more people who don't speak English than people who do. Of course the details of how English is turned into incomprehensible garbage by machine translation always depend on the target language in question.