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They just put the text in a local equivalent to Google Translate and that's it, no proofreading etc. There's a famous restaurant sign in China that says "Trans
by howlgarnish 6y ago
They just put the text in a local equivalent to Google Translate and that's it, no proofreading etc. There's a famous restaurant sign in China that says "Translation server error" on it: https://www.seriouseats.com/2008/07/translate-server-error-restaurant-in-china-poorly-translated-banner.html https://www.seriouseats.com/2008/07/translate-server-error-r...
There was an early translation program in China that was both popular and notoriously bad. For example, the simplified character 干 has a number of meanings, most commonly "dry", but the program would always pick "fuck" -- the end result being supermarket aisles with signs saying "Fuck Goods" and restaurants offering dishes like "Duck Fuck Noodles". Engrish.com (sic) has a whole category for these:
https://www.engrish.com/category/adult-engrish/ https://www.engrish.com/category/adult-engrish/
- hermitcrab 6y ago>They just put the text in a local equivalent to Google Translate and that's it, no proofreading etc. I guess that is what they must be doing. But I still don't quite understand why they would spend thousands of dollars creating a product, tooling, packaging, instructions etc and then not spend, what, ~$100 getting a half-way decent translation.